From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 10 20:18:46 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 4BB5B16A4CE for ; Wed, 10 Dec 2003 20:18:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from ozlabs.org (ozlabs.org [203.10.76.45]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEF6443D21 for ; Wed, 10 Dec 2003 20:18:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from blackwater.lemis.com (blackwater.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FD002BD4C for ; Thu, 11 Dec 2003 15:18:42 +1100 (EST) Received: by blackwater.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 598CE51206; Thu, 11 Dec 2003 14:48:39 +1030 (CST) Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 14:48:39 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Peter Ulrich Kruppa Message-ID: <20031211041839.GK81968@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20031210174614.R64570@pukruppa.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="EVh9lyqKgK19OcEf" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031210174614.R64570@pukruppa.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Stupid vinum questions 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: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 04:18:46 -0000 --EVh9lyqKgK19OcEf Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday, 10 December 2003 at 17:57:56 +0100, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: > Hi! > > Before I start experimenting, I would like to find out, if I am > on the right track. > I have got some old and small SCSI harddisks left. > 1) Can I use vinum to make them look like one big ufs slice (or > is it more like a partition, which can be sliced)? Yes. > 2) Can I boot from such a thing, or do I need a seperate disk? You can't boot from a Vinum volume without a single-subdisk plex. That doesn't sound like what you want to build. > 3) Is there some fine manual around, that could be used as a > starting point for reading? (I had a look at at my copy of > "The Complete FreeBSD", but I guess I wouldn't ask these > questions, if I had understood it.) Maybe it would be a good start to say what you didn't understand in the book. That way I can fix it for other people too. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --EVh9lyqKgK19OcEf Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/1/AfIubykFB6QiMRAgw4AJ4+PNmqqpLoZIxfgn/+uvFGthPezACfe/Av 8RLnTz3uhTOaPheVioV06KA= =y4sA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --EVh9lyqKgK19OcEf--