From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 6 6:38:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns0.sitesnow.com (ns0.sitesnow.com [216.130.1.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64C9314CA5 for ; Sat, 6 Nov 1999 06:38:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gskouby@ns0.sitesnow.com) Received: from gskouby (helo=localhost) by ns0.sitesnow.com with local-esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 11k6z4-00058B-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 6 Nov 1999 09:38:26 -0500 Date: Sat, 6 Nov 1999 09:38:26 -0500 (EST) From: Greg Skouby To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vinum setup In-Reply-To: <199911060630.BAA25638@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 6 Nov 1999, Crist J. Clark wrote: > 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 > > Yeah, I already have freebsd installed and running on da4. I just want to use da0-da3 in a raid-5 array. However, I do not know how to make the disks da0-da3 have the file system type of vinum instead of UFS. Thanks..bye To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message