From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 23 10:33:10 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA68C37B401 for ; Mon, 23 Jun 2003 10:33:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thor.acuson.com (ac17859.acuson.com [157.226.71.79]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E96843F85 for ; Mon, 23 Jun 2003 10:33:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DavidJohnson@Siemens.com) Received: from mvaexch02.acuson.com (mvaexch02.acuson.com [157.226.230.209]) by thor.acuson.com (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 (built Feb 21 2002)) with ESMTP id <0HGY00HAX3CMS8@thor.acuson.com> for freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org; Mon, 23 Jun 2003 10:31:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mvaexch02.acuson.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Mon, 23 Jun 2003 10:20:31 -0700 Received: from dhcp-46-117.acuson.com ([157.226.46.117]) by mvaexch01.acuson.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id JQ7NKWWV; Mon, 23 Jun 2003 10:21:42 -0700 Content-return: allowed Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 10:32:25 -0700 From: Johnson David In-reply-to: <3EF60140.8010802@johanpaul.com> To: Johan Paul , freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Message-id: <200306231032.25005.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> Organization: Siemens Medical Systems MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 References: <3EF60140.8010802@johanpaul.com> Subject: Re: Setup of a software RAID-1 to an existing system? X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 17:33:11 -0000 On Sunday 22 June 2003 12:19 pm, Johan Paul wrote: > Hi all! > > I am pretty new to FreeBSD but thought it might be a nice idea to > migrate from a Linux server to a FreeBSD one. > > My question is regarding software RAID-1 for this FreeBSD box. I have > two IDE equally sized hard drives and I installed FreeBSD 4.8 on the > other one. Now the question is: can I make a RAID-1 array of these > two disks while FreeBSD is installed on the other one (using vinum or > other...)? Or how do I get RAID-1 to work on these two disks? The Complete FreeBSD (O'Reilly) has a complete chapter on Vinum. It is very well written, and includes a section on installing FreeBSD to Vinum. David