From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 5 22:27:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 736B814BE0 for ; Fri, 5 Nov 1999 22:27:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id BAA25638; Sat, 6 Nov 1999 01:30:51 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199911060630.BAA25638@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: vinum setup In-Reply-To: from Greg Skouby at "Nov 5, 1999 08:18:02 pm" To: gskouby@ns0.sitesnow.com (Greg Skouby) Date: Sat, 6 Nov 1999 01:30:51 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greg Skouby wrote, > Hello, > The man pages on vinum say that the file system type can not be > UFS, rather it has to be vinum. How can I set that to be vinum inside of > sysintall? Or do I need to use the manual commands? I am just a little > confused on how to preparde the four disks I have, da0-da3, to start with > the configuration of vinum. I have read through the man pages but I don't > think I have a grasp on it. Thanks very much.. You cannont setup vinum disks inside of sysinstall. For one thing, the root partition cannot be a vinum volume. You need do a minimum install to a "regular" partition to at least bootstrap the machine. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message