From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 21 14:28:47 2004 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 02DF116A4CF for ; Wed, 21 Apr 2004 14:28:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from peter.smxy.org (smxy.org [64.32.179.41]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B860F43D5E for ; Wed, 21 Apr 2004 14:28:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ste@smxy.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by peter.smxy.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D62324DB for ; Wed, 21 Apr 2004 17:28:46 -0400 (EDT) Received: from smxy.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (peter.smxy.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10025) with ESMTP id 19293-09 for ; Wed, 21 Apr 2004 17:28:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: from smxy.org (pcp09423173pcs.plnfld01.nj.comcast.net [69.141.211.132]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by peter.smxy.org (Postfix) with ESMTP for ; Wed, 21 Apr 2004 17:28:45 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4086E78C.1090008@smxy.org> Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 17:28:44 -0400 From: "Shaun T. Erickson" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (Windows/20040207) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p9 at smxy.org Subject: Need vinum info/advice, fast. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: ste@smxy.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 21:28:47 -0000 A client has hired me to do some work, part of which is replacing Red Hat 9, which is end-of-lifed at the end of this month. I'd convinced him to let me install FreeBSD, right up until I told him that - to my knowledge - you cannot trivially set up software raid on FreeBSD, during install, as you can with Red Hat Linux. I'm supposed to build the new server tomorrow. *Is* there any way I can set up software raid of two ide disks, during install, and for all partitions? This is just to mirror the system disk, so that we can avoid downtime, and going to backups in case of a disk failure. If it can be done, how do I do it? I've never used vinum before, and only know what it is, but nothing about it. I wish I had more than one night to figure this out, but I don't. If it isn't FreeBSD, he going to likely want me to install Fedora Core 2 Linux, instead. TIA, -ste