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There is probably a dozen of ways to install the userland for use within a FreeBSD jail.

Most of the documentation I saw (including the man page itself) refers to building/installing from the source tree. Sysinstall seems only to be considered for additional post-configuration tasks and is always run inside of the jail.

While building/installing a jail may have it’s advantages in respect to security flaws or bugs in general, installing through sysinstall may be faster and probably less error prone.
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FreeBSD jails are very powerful indeed. While it is rather easy to setup a jail for encapsulation of single services (let’s think of it as a more luxury chroot environment then), it’s also no big thing to adapt them to create ‘virtual’ servers similar to what Virtuozzo and OpenVZ for Linux try to achieve.
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Yet another software RAID howto, I seem to be growing these in a hurry after all

This time I will cover NetBSD’s RaidFrame and how to setup RAID1 disk mirroring on a Digital Alpha PWS433au.
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