Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2015 14:48:31 -0453.75 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> To: FreeBSD Questions !!!! <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Geom question Message-ID: <560EDE45.3040605@hiwaay.net>
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I am prepping to provision 2 boxen w/ FreeBSD 9.3R, preferably from a
thumb drive. I would like to add a 'utils' directory w/ some scripts I
wrote to automate the partitioning/slicing of the HDD's (2X on 1 box, 8X
on the other), & also accumulate output from the install process in case
questions arise. To that end, I am planning on partitioning/slicing a
thumb drive, prepping it to be bootable following examples on the gpart
man page, & copying verbatim stuff from the memstick.img for 9.3R that I
downloaded a while back, as well as adding my utils directory. Reading
up on gpart & geom raises 1 question: can I do all these preps on a disk
image file I create w/ dd, or do i do them in place on the target
memstick, then dd the results onto an on-disk image for safekeeping ?
Put another way, can a disk image created by dd be a 'geom' for gpart ?
TIA & have a good one.
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William A. Mahaffey III
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