Date: Sat, 12 May 2012 10:27:52 -0400 From: Chris Brennan (lists) <lists@xaerolimit.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Wierd install (kinda) Message-ID: <20120512102752.009f9363b377c3a9a7ffa0d8@xaerolimit.net>
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--Signature=_Sat__12_May_2012_10_27_52_-0400_6=0pDgXQSXFqgzC3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable This is a new way of setting up a machine for me, I have no more smaller spare hard-drives to setup as a system boot/root drive for my FreeBSD machine (they are all dead), but what I do have is a 2GB CF card, the rest of the system is being housed on a ZFS array. My goal is to boot the FreeBSD9 bootstick img and install just what I need to the CF card, but I am unsure of exactly how to go about this. I only want what I need on the card and no more and then have it mounted RO at boot (will I have the option then to remount it RW if I need to make changes later?) The host system is am AMD64 machine w/ 6GB of RAM, it has 6 SATA drives of varying sizes, the smallest being 500GB, the largest being 1TB, The ZFS array is 3 750GB SATA drives in a ZFS-backed/run raid5 array (raidz or raiz2 I think is what it's called.) They all have important data them so they cannot be touched/modified in any way by the installer. P.S. I know my signature dosn't match my public key, I haven't added this e-mail yet (it's on my TODO list!) -- Chris Brennan | http://xaerolimit.net | http://xaerolimit.net/forum > A: Yes. > >Q: Are you sure? > >>A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. > >>>Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? > http://xkcd.com/84/ | http://xkcd.com/149/ | http://xkcd.com/549/ > GPG: D5B20C0C (6741 8EE4 6C7D 11FB 8DA8 9E4A EECD 9A84 D5B2 0C0C) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --Signature=_Sat__12_May_2012_10_27_52_-0400_6=0pDgXQSXFqgzC3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJPrnNwAAoJEO7NmoTVsgwMoEoH/2wlLzPu4CJ3crmVdA6WjIUE 7Nz3nuNgKOGggoFlP+cr4naHi04HgChUwm887+2utIj6HyjzstimKdZluthiymTj 0fZ9ZVEa7XpOOGn6uzv153nO1sIbsZeaRVaCWBAR0vj52l5bmg6tK0ht5SglDgkS zPe12E0MPgk/H/yHVpXDVZbgI+Vi4aUuVYuEjv/spFapuwj9j6e17eBPZdNI72sI 8uVd/QRY4LC1QaTp3PZZbIIRm4kPHpezQibHmuJjf77fe98sB6/3D2Ew6hkzqlVX UUlC9KUY1xi0JgLCDRHOv0yuh30niosdeKDUDrMJS16UHE9Bc6z4RLHRPH8at/o= =yiaK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature=_Sat__12_May_2012_10_27_52_-0400_6=0pDgXQSXFqgzC3--
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