From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Fri Oct 2 20:51:46 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3C42A0E2AE for ; Fri, 2 Oct 2015 20:51:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wam@hiwaay.net) Received: from fly.hiwaay.net (fly.hiwaay.net [216.180.54.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A4F5D1C43 for ; Fri, 2 Oct 2015 20:51:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wam@hiwaay.net) Received: from kabini1.local (dynamic-216-186-213-32.knology.net [216.186.213.32] (may be forged)) (authenticated bits=0) by fly.hiwaay.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/fly) with ESMTP id t92KpiZ2015508 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Fri, 2 Oct 2015 15:51:45 -0500 Subject: Re: Geom question References: <560EDE45.3040605@hiwaay.net> <3D81C7BC-1A31-4046-88B7-50F25EA3B952@ccsys.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions !!!! From: "William A. Mahaffey III" Message-ID: <560EEE5F.3080904@hiwaay.net> Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2015 15:57:13 -0453.75 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3D81C7BC-1A31-4046-88B7-50F25EA3B952@ccsys.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2015 20:51:46 -0000 On 10/02/15 15:31, Chad J. Milios wrote: >> On Oct 2, 2015, at 3:41 PM, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: >> >> 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. >> >> -- >> >> William A. Mahaffey III > In a way, yes. `mdconfig -f filename` will make your file accessible as a virtual device. > Then to be accessed as /dev/md0 ? Any other clues/gotchas :-) ? Thanks & TIA & have a good one. -- William A. Mahaffey III ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war ever devised by man." -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.