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Installing Debian with ZFS

• This page is outdated.*

Direct install

=> See https://github.com/zfsonlinux/pkg-zfs/wiki/HOWTO-install-Debian-GNU-Linux-to-a-Native-ZFS-Root-Filesystem

Install and Convert

• FIXME: add more detail*

To install Debian from scratch with ZFS, the basic steps are:

• Install a base system the normal way, or from my ZFS Rescue Disc[1].
• Convert it to ZFS[2]

=> 1: /zfs-rescue-disc/ | 2: /converting-an-existing-linux-installation-to-zfs/

See also

=> ZFS on Linux

Links to this note

• ZFS Rescue Disc[3]

=> 3: /zfs-rescue-disc/

This page may be dated. In particular, ZFS can now be installed atop the Debian live CD images.

• Converting an Existing Linux Installation to ZFS[4]

=> 4: /converting-an-existing-linux-installation-to-zfs/

This page may be dated.

• ZFS on Linux[5]

=> 5: /zfs-on-linux/

This is about running ZFS[6] on Linux[7] and Debian[8].

=> 6: /zfs/ | 7: /linux/ | 8: /debian/

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