Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 20:21:42 +0200 From: Eivind Olsen <eivind@aminor.no> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD onto Vinum-volumes? Message-ID: <7653953.1058991702@[192.168.0.2]> In-Reply-To: <877k69z5p7.fsf@pooh.honeypot.net> References: <61117392.1058975488@[10.122.7.157]> <877k69z5p7.fsf@pooh.honeypot.net>
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--On 23. juli 2003 09:19 -0500 Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> 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 the new system is then configuring vinum, adding volumes > for /usr, /var, and so on, and moving the (small!) amount of data from > the "physical" filesystem to their vinum counterparts. Once that's up, I > do a more complete install with /stand/sysinstall. 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? > 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: <http://www.vinumvm.org/cfbsd/vinum.pdf>; (or, as text <http://www.vinumvm.org/cfbsd/vinum.txt>). It suggests to install the swap-partition first on the drive, setup a slice for vinum to cover the entire drive and then run bsdlabel and change the offset and size for the swap and vinum partitions. -- Regards / Hilsen Eivind Olsen <eivind@aminor.no>
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