From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 25 17:24:47 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 378B737B401 for ; Fri, 25 Jul 2003 17:24:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0DC543F75 for ; Fri, 25 Jul 2003 17:24:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id BDB1E526C3; Sat, 26 Jul 2003 09:54:43 +0930 (CST) Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2003 09:54:43 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Kirk Strauser Message-ID: <20030726002443.GF5448@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <61117392.1058975488@[10.122.7.157]> <877k69z5p7.fsf@pooh.honeypot.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="zN1HJFR/B7wwTray" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <877k69z5p7.fsf@pooh.honeypot.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD onto Vinum-volumes? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2003 00:24:47 -0000 --zN1HJFR/B7wwTray Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday, 23 July 2003 at 9:19:16 -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote: > At 2003-07-23T13:51:28Z, Eivind Olsen writes: > >> There's no data on the disks that I want/have to keep. Is it at all >> possible to configure Vinum and then install FreeBSD or will I have to >> install FreeBSD first and then "convert" to Vinum-volumes by manually >> editing the disklabel (with bsdlabel), calculating offsets etc.? > > I've had great success with configuring an initial tiny partition as '/' and > doing a minimal installation (and I mean *minimal*, as in, there's nothing > else you can remove and still have it boot). The first step after booting > the new system is then configuring vinum, adding volumes for /usr, /var, and > so on, and moving the (small!) amount of data from the "physical" filesystem > to their vinum counterparts. Once that's up, I do a more complete install > with /stand/sysinstall. And how do you reuse the space taken up by your initial tiny partition, in the order of 150 MB? Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers --zN1HJFR/B7wwTray Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/IcpLIubykFB6QiMRAohQAJ4lzasfHzHV7czcj9BKYAwe4S7mfACfaFOr MkdLJQHjEJA2tKAIBXSnjDw= =Psm/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --zN1HJFR/B7wwTray--