From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 17 10:56: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mrs-1.smartworld.net (mrs-1-fix.smartworld.net [216.70.64.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E65B837B6D6 for ; Wed, 17 May 2000 10:56:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhendrex@freewwweb.com) Received: from freewwweb.com (ppp-21.tnt-2.hou.smartworld.net [64.38.20.181]) by mrs-1.smartworld.net (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA96083 for ; Wed, 17 May 2000 13:56:09 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3922DC0B.94BD81C7@freewwweb.com> Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 12:51:07 -0500 From: jhendrex X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (Win95; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Vinum install Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi All, This newbie's (eternal student/newbie) having trouble getting started and a quick question. I have always detested the slackspace loss on hard drives. Correct me if I'm wrong, Vinum seems a way to so arrange drive configuration that a more efficient usage results (ie.,less slackspace). Q1) Is this not one of the potential benefits of Vinum? Have read & studied 'til I'm blue in the face, but I am missing something. New nstall. wd0=8.4 Gb and wd1=13 Gb. I want to setup about 2 Gb for Dos & Win3.11, the balance to be FreeBSD 3.4. (I just bought the 10 cdrom set including 3rd edition)I think I would like to do a Vinum volume (concat) for each physical drive? Volume names sDc_1 & sDc_2 (either as prefix or sufix if other verbage is needed.) We've fdisked first for DOS and left 6 Gb unused. I've experience with a couple of Linux & FreeBSD 3.4 installs. Not much help on the newsgroups on Vinum. Q2) "HOW" do I start to setup and actually INSTALL Vinum. Can you outline HOW to start? thanks, John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message