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Subject: Re: Fresh install on gmirror'ed disks?
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Dominic Marks wrote:
> Someone could be funded to work on this like the TCP/IP performance
> project. I'd be willing to make a donation, as I am sure you would
> Mike. All that is required is a willing + able person and enough
> donations to make it worth his or her while.
>
> Volunteers?
>   

Well, there is the google summer of code project, and one of the 
projects is a new installer.

http://wikitest.freebsd.org/moin.cgi/BSDInstaller

Andrew, have you considered adding support for creating geom based 
raid/lvm to the bsd installer?