Re: Installing FreeBSD onto Vinum-volumes?

2003-07-25 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 23 July 2003 at 14:11:31 -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote: At 2003-07-23T18:21:42Z, Eivind Olsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Out of curiosity, what offsets have you had to calculate? I've read a bit of a chapter from the 4th edition of The Complete FreeBSD:

Re: Installing FreeBSD onto Vinum-volumes?

2003-07-25 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 23 July 2003 at 9:19:16 -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote: At 2003-07-23T13:51:28Z, Eivind Olsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There's no data on the disks that I want/have to keep. Is it at all possible to configure Vinum and then install FreeBSD or will I have to install FreeBSD first

Re: Installing FreeBSD onto Vinum-volumes?

2003-07-25 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 23 July 2003 at 14:11:31 -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote: At 2003-07-23T18:21:42Z, Eivind Olsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Are you able to have a mirrored root-device (/) with this approach? Or will you end up with having a single copy of / on one drive? I end up with a single copy

Re: Installing FreeBSD onto Vinum-volumes?

2003-07-25 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-07-26T00:27:20Z, Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: OK, missed that. The whole intention of the exercise I describe in the book is to have a mirrored root file system. This has been consistently the most demanded new feature in Vinum. Understood. I had no desire to do

Installing FreeBSD onto Vinum-volumes?

2003-07-23 Thread Eivind Olsen
Hello. I'm about to install a new machine which will have 2 IDE-disks. I'd like to mirror some volumes between those disks while other volumes should be striped. I'd like to do this with FreeBSD 5.1. There's no data on the disks that I want/have to keep. Is it at all possible to configure

Re: Installing FreeBSD onto Vinum-volumes?

2003-07-23 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-07-23T13:51:28Z, Eivind Olsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There's no data on the disks that I want/have to keep. Is it at all possible to configure Vinum and then install FreeBSD or will I have to install FreeBSD first and then convert to Vinum-volumes by manually editing the disklabel

Re: Installing FreeBSD onto Vinum-volumes?

2003-07-23 Thread Eivind Olsen
--On 23. juli 2003 09:19 -0500 Kirk Strauser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've had great success with configuring an initial tiny partition as '/' and doing a minimal installation (and I mean *minimal*, as in, there's nothing else you can remove and still have it boot). The first step after booting

Re: Installing FreeBSD onto Vinum-volumes?

2003-07-23 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-07-23T18:21:42Z, Eivind Olsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Are you able to have a mirrored root-device (/) with this approach? Or will you end up with having a single copy of / on one drive? I end up with a single copy of '/'. However, I partition (both,all) drives identically, so that

Re: Installing FreeBSD onto Vinum-volumes?

2003-07-23 Thread oremanj
On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 03:51:28PM +0200 or thereabouts, Eivind Olsen wrote: Hello. I'm about to install a new machine which will have 2 IDE-disks. I'd like to mirror some volumes between those disks while other volumes should be striped. I'd like to do this with FreeBSD 5.1. There's