From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 12 14:28:19 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DB89106564A for ; Sat, 12 May 2012 14:28:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@xaerolimit.net) Received: from mail-pb0-f54.google.com (mail-pb0-f54.google.com [209.85.160.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C1F28FC24 for ; Sat, 12 May 2012 14:28:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pbbro2 with SMTP id ro2so5029429pbb.13 for ; Sat, 12 May 2012 07:28:18 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:x-mailer:mime-version:content-type :x-gm-message-state; bh=1d1HKx8nrSMD41pUeMyVP78xwY4JuRfHvxs9y5H22Z0=; b=YDyjIlNTbR9ukyC5cZ7/5Rkg/hdRImachs6qlwd/6vrnzH8Fj9NpcjEDJAzL+nOwHP dkDDPHnw5ooPkho8XsnB6ShRy/ThGtRTnHCxXZDNPP55OhmWcRvgJhgE4klydOxI22XP I2OgphPaXm5hpm8PyE+MyT8USz06gIGD8cdKJwBsIhkgQBbbi2wZ2bWEi6nj7RRIZ45o uS7/6JiLS10FleI3MMtxV+ChSoK89HHamMVNUj/vcmaN2GpjdUveYOlK9d0VjIwCzOfQ zW4ywPorUXUWHf8EVTiOp13eZohjJZaCap/FqKPiuj0ZaKvHDPfvAjH5BJxhhG/x/stD 0j7g== Received: by 10.68.237.198 with SMTP id ve6mr5553399pbc.116.1336832898814; Sat, 12 May 2012 07:28:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Naga (ool-45745da6.dyn.optonline.net. [69.116.93.166]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id rj4sm16140451pbc.30.2012.05.12.07.28.17 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 12 May 2012 07:28:18 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 12 May 2012 10:27:52 -0400 From: Chris Brennan (lists) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20120512102752.009f9363b377c3a9a7ffa0d8@xaerolimit.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.2.0beta6 (GTK+ 2.10.14; i686-pc-mingw32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg="PGP-SHA1"; boundary="Signature=_Sat__12_May_2012_10_27_52_-0400_6=0pDgXQSXFqgzC3" X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQkPM/mQ2xnkdcZd/4xEmGfr+Bu1NbHX4xDAkrQJpt1Z6vsEPU4LruiWtLLQZ/av9UjnmDfE Subject: Wierd install (kinda) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 12 May 2012 14:28:19 -0000 --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--