Installing RavynOS

Installing 0.3.0 "Tanuki"

• Boot the Live ISO
• Open Filer and navigate to /Applications/Utilities
• Double-click on Install AiryxOS.app

The installer will walk you through the installation process. Note that this version requires a whole disk and is not compatible with dual-boot systems. It is best tried in a virtual machine.

Installing 0.4.0pre "Pygmy Marmoset" snapshots

Snapshots currently do not have a GUI, so the Installer app can't be used. Follow the steps below to install the system manually.

• Boot the Live ISO and log in to the shell as liveuser
• Become root with sudo -s
• Identify the disk to install on using geom disk list. Replace device in the commands below with this disk name.
• To use the whole disk
  • Delete any existing partitions using gpart delete
  • Use gpart destroy to clear the geom disk
  • Create a new GPT partition table with gpart create -s gpt device
• Create an EFI partition with gpart add -t efi -l efi -s 256M device. If you have an existing EFI partition, you can skip this step.
• Initialize the EFI filesystem with newfs_msdos /dev/devicep1. If you have an existing EFI partition and want to preserve loaders for other operating systems, you can skip this step.
• Create a swap partition using gpart add -t freebsd-swap -s 4G device (use whatever size you want)
• Create a ZFS partition on the rest of the disk using gpart add -t freebsd-zfs -l ravynOS device
• Initialize the ZFS pool using zpool create -f -R /mnt -O mountpoint=/ -O atime=off -O canmount=off -O compression=on ravynOS devicep3
• Create the ZFS datasets
  • zfs create -o canmount=off -o mountpoint=none ravynOS/ROOT
  • zfs create -o mountpoint=/ ravynOS/ROOT/default
  • You can create additional datasets for future expansion now if you like (e.g. /usr/src, /usr/ports, /var, ...)
  • zpool set bootfs=ravynOS/ROOT/default ravynOS
• mkdir /tmp/efi
• mount -t msdosfs /dev/devicep1 /tmp/efi
• mkdir -p /tmp/efi/efi/boot
• cp /boot/loader.efi /tmp/efi/efi/boot/bootx64.efi
• cp /boot/loader.efi /tmp/efi/efi/boot/loader.efi
• umount /tmp/efi
• cat >> /tmp/excludes

/dev
/proc
/tmp

• Press Ctrl-D to write the file and return to the shell

• cd /sysroot
• cpdup -uIof -X /tmp/excludes . /mnt
• Go grab a coffee
• chroot /mnt /usr/bin/zsh The remaining commands are run in the chroot.
• /usr/sbin/bsdinstall config
• /usr/sbin/bsdinstall entropy
• /usr/sbin/pw userdel -n liveuser
• /usr/sbin/pw groupdel -n liveuser
• rm -rf /Users/liveuser
• /usr/sbin/pkg remove -y furybsd-live-settings freebsd-installer
• mv /etc/rc.conf.local /etc/rc.conf
• Edit /etc/rc.conf and ensure it has these entries:

zfs_enable="YES"
zfsd_enable="YES"
hostname="yourHostname"

• Save and quit
• Edit /boot/loader.conf and ensure it has these entries:

cryptodev_load="YES"
zfs_load="YES"
mach_load="YES"
beastie_disable="YES"
autoboot_delay="3"
vfs.root.mountfrom.options="rw"
vfs.root.mountfrom="zfs:ravynOS/ROOT/default"

• Save and quit
• Create a user account for yourself with adduser. Be sure to add yourself to the wheel and video groups. Shell should be /usr/bin/zsh
• Copy an appropriate timezone file from /usr/share/zoneinfo to /etc/localtime
• Reboot and enjoy!