From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 8 05:54:00 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9364916A400 for ; Mon, 8 May 2006 05:54:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yraffah@savola.com) Received: from heathrow.savoladns.com (heathrow.savoladns.com [212.12.174.7]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C15A843D45 for ; Mon, 8 May 2006 05:53:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from yraffah@savola.com) Received: from ocs.savola.com (ocs.savola.com [222.22.1.211]) by heathrow.savoladns.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F8C59586C for ; Mon, 8 May 2006 08:53:57 +0300 (AST) Received: from 222.22.1.191 by ocs.savola.com with ESMTP id 56891811147066965; Mon, 08 May 2006 08:42:45 +0300 From: Yousef Raffah To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <445E2168.7080609@jim-liesl.org> References: <4F9C9299A10AE74E89EA580D14AA10A605F5AB@royal64.emp.zapto.org> <445E2168.7080609@jim-liesl.org> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-33E5ckmE00kJtXwKTYQq" Organization: The Savola Group Date: Mon, 08 May 2006 08:54:03 +0300 Message-Id: <1147067643.1047.2.camel@localhost.savola.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.2.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Subject: Re: 6.0 RELEASE and Volume Managers X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: yraffah@savola.com List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 08 May 2006 05:54:00 -0000 --=-33E5ckmE00kJtXwKTYQq Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 2006-05-07 at 10:33 -0600, security wrote: > Daniel Eriksson wrote: >=20 > >Yousef Raffah wrote: > > =20 > > > >>How can I have my volumes configured? Is it after the system is being > >>installed or during installation? Please forgive my newbie=20 > >>questions :| > >> =20 > >> > > > >You need to configure your arrays BEFORE you install FreeBSD. Once the > >arrays have been set up properly you can install FreeBSD. Because the > >card presents each array that you have defined as a regular disk to the > >system, just select the appropriate disk (most likely da0) during > >sysinstall to get FreeBSD to partition/slice it up for you. > > =20 > > > Try and get the SmartStart CD's (from HP). It'll make setting up lots=20 > easier and you can load the latest code on the controllers. OK, I found out that my array has been already set up as RAID 5, which is what I'm looking for. Do you think it is time now to configure the volumes or is there something else needs to be done before that? -- Sincerely, Yousef Raffah Senior Systems Administrator -- Aren't you using Firefox? Get it at http://www.getfirefox.com --=-33E5ckmE00kJtXwKTYQq Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBEXtz7H9IXMb4e6CMRApK+AKCd8IbBxXQLCbcedPIhJZHKDdqksQCg2pCE bVCi1H5BTyMAgWKJiLsjbp8= =mQah -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-33E5ckmE00kJtXwKTYQq--