Re: Bootstrapping Raid 5 w/GEOM

2005-07-22 Thread Ivailo Tanusheff
Norberto Meijome [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/21/2005 03:41 PM To FreeBSD Questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc Subject Re: Bootstrapping Raid 5 w/GEOM Michael Dale wrote: Norberto Meijome wrote: So, should I 1) Boot up with Disc 1, install minimal config

Bootstrapping Raid 5 w/GEOM

2005-07-21 Thread Norberto Meijome
Hi all, I have a box with 4 x 120 GB EIDE drives which I want to convert to FreeBSD 5.4 ( it's an old SNAP 4500 from Snap Appliance, now owned by Adaptec, running a custom build of Linux) I want to setup software Raid 5 , and I want it to affect ALL partitions, including / (so if any one of

Re: Bootstrapping Raid 5 w/GEOM

2005-07-21 Thread Daniel Marsh
On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 15:11:18 +0800, Norberto Meijome [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have a box with 4 x 120 GB EIDE drives which I want to convert to FreeBSD 5.4 ( it's an old SNAP 4500 from Snap Appliance, now owned by Adaptec, running a custom build of Linux) I want to setup

Re: Bootstrapping Raid 5 w/GEOM

2005-07-21 Thread Norberto Meijome
Daniel Marsh wrote: On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 15:11:18 +0800, Norberto Meijome [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have a box with 4 x 120 GB EIDE drives which I want to convert to FreeBSD 5.4 ( it's an old SNAP 4500 from Snap Appliance, now owned by Adaptec, running a custom build of Linux)

Re: Bootstrapping Raid 5 w/GEOM

2005-07-21 Thread Norberto Meijome
Norberto Meijome wrote: So, should I 1) Boot up with Disc 1, install minimal config, reboot 2) setup GEOM RAID 5 on all the discs ? 3) edit fstab to point to /dev/[what??]/[what else] instead of /ad0s1[abef] ? or boot up with CD 1, run GEOM, build the raid 5 from here before installing

Re: Bootstrapping Raid 5 w/GEOM

2005-07-21 Thread Michael Dale
Norberto Meijome wrote: So, should I 1) Boot up with Disc 1, install minimal config, reboot 2) setup GEOM RAID 5 on all the discs ? 3) edit fstab to point to /dev/[what??]/[what else] instead of /ad0s1[abef] ? When I installed GEOM for a RAID 1 setup I did the following: Install FreeBSD on

Re: Bootstrapping Raid 5 w/GEOM

2005-07-21 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 05:11:18PM +1000, Norberto Meijome wrote: Hi all, I have a box with 4 x 120 GB EIDE drives which I want to convert to FreeBSD 5.4 ( it's an old SNAP 4500 from Snap Appliance, now owned by Adaptec, running a custom build of Linux) I want to setup software Raid 5 ,

Re: Bootstrapping Raid 5 w/GEOM

2005-07-21 Thread Norberto Meijome
Michael Dale wrote: Norberto Meijome wrote: So, should I 1) Boot up with Disc 1, install minimal config, reboot 2) setup GEOM RAID 5 on all the discs ? 3) edit fstab to point to /dev/[what??]/[what else] instead of /ad0s1[abef] ? When I installed GEOM for a RAID 1 setup I did the

Re: Bootstrapping Raid 5 w/GEOM

2005-07-21 Thread Norberto Meijome
Stijn Hoop wrote: On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 05:11:18PM +1000, Norberto Meijome wrote: I want to setup software Raid 5 , and I want it to affect ALL partitions, including / (so if any one of the drives fails, it will still boot up properly). I am planning on using GEOM, but open to

Re: Bootstrapping Raid 5 w/GEOM

2005-07-21 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 10:56:39PM +1000, Norberto Meijome wrote: Stijn Hoop wrote: On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 05:11:18PM +1000, Norberto Meijome wrote: I want to setup software Raid 5 , and I want it to affect ALL partitions, including / (so if any one of the drives fails, it will