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Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 20:20:59 -0600
From: Danny Howard <dannyman@toldme.com>
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On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 07:37:24PM -0600, Mike Loiterman wrote:
> I tried following the instructions at:
> http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/ and couldn't make it work.
> 
> I ended up installing a minimal installation on one disk, reooting to the
> new install, doing atacontrol create RAID1 ad4 ad6, then rebooting to the
> install CD and installing into ar0.  This seems to have worked.

This all sounds extremely familiar.  I did all of this, and it made me
very quesy.  So, I ripped it out and tried again.

> Is your solution better?

You can deliver your own opinion, my resolution is at:
http://dannyman.toldme.com/2005/01/24/freebsd-howto-gmirror-system/

Cheers,
-danny

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