From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 3 9: 7:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.enteract.com (mail.enteract.com [207.229.143.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F17B37BC24 for ; Wed, 3 May 2000 09:07:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nasby@shell-1.enteract.com) Received: from shell-1.enteract.com (nasby@shell-1.enteract.com [207.229.143.40]) by mail.enteract.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA21120; Wed, 3 May 2000 11:07:41 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from nasby@shell-1.enteract.com) Received: (from nasby@localhost) by shell-1.enteract.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA52366; Wed, 3 May 2000 11:07:38 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from nasby) Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 11:07:38 -0500 From: "Jim C. Nasby" To: Greg Lehey Cc: Marius Vincent , freeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: vinum Message-ID: <20000503110738.D46955@enteract.com> Reply-To: jim@nasby.net Mail-Followup-To: Greg Lehey , Marius Vincent , freeBSD-Questions References: <20000503105720.E1654@freebie.lemis.com> <20000503184408.U8284@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre3i In-Reply-To: <20000503184408.U8284@freebie.lemis.com> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE i386 X-Distributed: Join the Effort! http://www.distributed.net Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I think the problem with the current vinum documentation is that it's very intimidating. Those 37 pages are in two manpages and it's difficult for someone unfamiliar with vinum to get started. A how-to would be very beneficial, imho. It seems there's also a bunch of caveats that seem easy to miss, such as that you can boot off a mirror device (at least that's what I gathered from a previous email in this thread). Having said that, I would prefer seeing Greg continue with development rather than spend time putting together a how-to at this point, since vinum is still considered 'alpha' afaik. If it didn't take a lot of time to maintain, an FAQ would probably be very helpful. My $0.02 On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 06:44:08PM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Wednesday, 3 May 2000 at 10:57:07 +0200, Marius Vincent wrote: > >> On Tuesday, 2 May 2000 at 15:29:57 +0200, Marius Vincent wrote: > >>> Hi > >>> > >>> Has anyone used vinum before?? > >> > >> Yes. > >> > >>> Please let me know where I can find more help about starting off > >>> with vinum. > >> > >> Look at http://www.lemis.com/vinum.html, or read the man pages. > >> > >>> I want to purchase an identical IDE secondary drive to my primary > >>> sothat I can mirror the two of them. > >> > >> No, you don't want to do that. Use two controllers. > > > > Do you know where I can find any literature on vinum, or maybe some > > kickstart tips? > > In the URL above. > > > The website does not help much. > > What's the problem? > > > Also the man paged are very scetchy. > > There are a total of 37 pages of man pages. Have you read them? > What's missing? > > Greg > -- > When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. > For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html > Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key > See complete headers for address and phone numbers > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Jim C. Nasby (aka Decibel!) /^\ jim@nasby.net /___\ Freelance lighting designer and database developer / | \ Member: Triangle Fraternity, Sports Car Club of America /___|___\ Give your computer some brain-candy! www.distributed.net Team #1828 Get paid to surf!! http://www.enteract.com/~nasby/alladvantage.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message