Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2015 10:46:29 -0453.75 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> To: FreeBSD Questions !!!! <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: FreeBSD 9.3R installation question(s) Message-ID: <55EDB00B.6090400@hiwaay.net>
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I will be bringing 2 new boxen online in the next few days/weeks. Both
were originally intended to run CentOS6 (I even have kickstart files
prepped & ready to go), however in view of recent success using
VirtualBox (& in stark contrast to *serious* issues w/ same last year
this time) & desire to reduce the .... aaaah .... dirversity of boxen on
my LAN, I decided to use FreeBSD 9.3R on both. Both are AMD A-series APU
based, 1 w/ 8 HDD's, to become my dev-box, the other w/ 2 HDD's to be
used as a home-theatre box w/ MythTV. I would like to optimize usage of
disk space as much as possible on both boxen, so I am planning to
partition the drives, then RAID the partitions, RAID1 for root, RAID0
for others, notably /home, where the preponderance of data will reside
on both boxen. Both setups are similar, but slightly more complex than
this box, also 9.3R, w/ 4 HDD's, but root on a plain UFS partition, /usr
on a 3-partition RAID0 (striped), & /home on a 4-partition RAID0. I am
planning on RAID1 (mirrored) root drive for both boxen, both probably
created from 16 GB partitions of 2.5" 1 TB HDD's, w/ 16 GB swap
partitions, & /home getting the rest (*very* similar to how the drives
on this box are setup). I had a fair amount of noob-ish issus w/ the
setup of this boxen almost exactly a year ago, as was dramatically
chronicled onlist. I eventually got everything going, w/ very good,
patient, & necessary onlist help. Hoping to avert as much drama this
time around as possible, I am planning to script the installs, to both
reduce fat-fingered errors & to allow accurate documentation of the
proceedings in case onlist help is needed. I have created 2 scripts for
the MythTV box, culled from an online source which I downloaded last
year, but can't recall immediately (I'll dredge it up if needed, but I
*think* it was good, although slightly different from my setup). Both
are designed to be called from appropriate points in the install
process. I attach them below & have a couple of questions. The
'setup...' one is to be run before/during the partitioning process, &
the other at the end, as indicated in comments. The online handbook
indicates that bootcode can be installed on the mirrored root RAID after
creation, & before newfs calls. Does this apply for both MBR & FreeBSD
boot code ? The manual illustrates using MBR code, but the gpart
man-page seems to imply either should work, comments please. Also, that
script mounts both newly-created RAID partitions (root & /home) under
/mnt before returning to the installer, is that proper ? In the
'finish...' script, the fstab file is written to '/tmp/bsd_install_etc',
is that correct, or should it be written to the mounted newly-created
root drive (or both) ? TIA & have a nice labor day.
--
William A. Mahaffey III
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