I’ve updated my FreeBSD ZFS Bootstrap scripts. There’s now an iso and a memstick version. Nothing fundamental has changed. Cleanup, few disk / zfs settings were made explicit rather than relying on defaults.
You should still read through and adapt as needed.
The reason I use the script rather than the installer is that I want just one ZFS volume for the OS and not separate volumes for /var /usr etc. Jails will get a dedicated volume each.
https://codeberg.org/hukl/freebsd-toolbox/src/branch/main/freebsd_zfs_bootstrap_iso.sh
https://codeberg.org/hukl/freebsd-toolbox/src/branch/main/freebsd_zfs_bootstrap_memstick.sh
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