On Tuesday, 12 November 2002 at 21:08:56 +0200, Toomas Aas wrote: > Hi! > >> I would like to ask you if is possible, and after which version, >> install FreeBSD using virtual disks (like Veritas Volume Manager or VINUM). >> Is this possible? > > It seems that Greg Lehey hasn't got the time to read lists right > now,
Correct. It was 3 am here. > so I'll just chime in and say that TTBOMK it is not possible to have > root partition on vinum volume, at least in FreeBSD 4.x. Also correct. > It seems to me that this is kind of chicken-and-egg problem - if the > support for vinum volumes is implemented as a module (vinum.ko), > then you need to load this module before you can access the logical > volume. Hence, vinum.ko itself can't be on a vinum volume :-) In fact, there are tricks to work around this. I had the root file system on a Vinum volume nearly three years ago, but there were objections to the tricks I was using. I'm still planning to update things. It's not very much work, but I haven't found the time yet. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
