From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 23 11:21:10 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 115E137B401 for ; Wed, 23 Jul 2003 11:21:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from trisha.aminor.no (trisha.aminor.no [213.187.177.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6884243F75 for ; Wed, 23 Jul 2003 11:21:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eivind@aminor.no) Received: from [192.168.0.2] (rincewind.eivind [192.168.0.2]) by trisha.aminor.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FAEB2CCB2 for ; Wed, 23 Jul 2003 20:21:08 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 20:21:42 +0200 From: Eivind Olsen To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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> X-Mailer: Mulberry/3.0.3 (Win32) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD onto Vinum-volumes? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 18:21:10 -0000 --On 23. juli 2003 09:19 -0500 Kirk Strauser 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: (or, as text ). 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