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Date:      Sat, 6 Nov 1999 09:38:26 -0500 (EST)
From:      Greg Skouby <gskouby@ns0.sitesnow.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: vinum setup
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911060936240.19716-100000@ns0.sitesnow.com>
In-Reply-To: <199911060630.BAA25638@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>

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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




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