From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 1 23:28:52 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CA776A26 for ; Fri, 1 Aug 2014 23:28:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp-vbr7.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr7.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.27]) (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 7A54526F0 for ; Fri, 1 Aug 2014 23:28:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from slackbox.erewhon.home (slackbox.xs4all.nl [83.162.243.5]) by smtp-vbr7.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id s71NShBY059392; Sat, 2 Aug 2014 01:28:43 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: by slackbox.erewhon.home (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 99C03123D5; Sat, 2 Aug 2014 01:28:43 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2014 01:28:43 +0200 From: Roland Smith To: "William A. Mahaffey III" Subject: Re: FreeBSD 9.3 new install problems .... Message-ID: <20140801232843.GB17393@slackbox.erewhon.home> Mail-Followup-To: "William A. Mahaffey III" , FreeBSD Questions !!!! References: <53DAFCF2.2070909@hiwaay.net> <53DB9797.1010702@hiwaay.net> <20140801164335.GA16376@slackbox.erewhon.home> <53DBF71D.3080807@hiwaay.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="Md/poaVZ8hnGTzuv" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <53DBF71D.3080807@hiwaay.net> X-GPG-Fingerprint: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 X-GPG-Key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt X-GPG-Notice: If this message is not signed, don't assume I sent it! User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner Cc: FreeBSD Questions !!!! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2014 23:28:53 -0000 --Md/poaVZ8hnGTzuv Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Aug 01, 2014 at 03:22:53PM -0500, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: > On 08/01/14 11:43, Roland Smith wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 01, 2014 at 08:35:19AM -0500, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: > >> On 07/31/14 22:33, Warren Block wrote: > >>> On Thu, 31 Jul 2014, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: > >>> > >>>> > >>>> .... I am new to FreeBSD, been using UNIX since '86 (ConvexOS, then > >>>> SGI), Linux since 1995 ISlack, Mandrake, SuSE, Fedora, CentOS). I > >>>> just apparently completed an install of FreeBSD AMD64 on a > >>>> purpose-built computer, Jaguar Kabini based (Sempron 3850), 4 X 1 TB > >>>> HGST SATA3 HDD's, 16 GB RAM. I partitioned the HDD;s using the shell > >>>> option from the partition dialog (used a shell script, > >>> Why? What did the shell script do? > >> Mostly saved me possible typos typing it all in live .... It just > >> entered the same gpt/gstripe/newfs.etc commands I would have typed in = at > >> the console .... > > Why don't you use the installer that comes on the install images, > > `bsdinstall`? > > > > Roland >=20 >=20 > I poked around a bit (*not* much), & missed anything RAID-related in the= =20 > installer .... is that on me ? The FreeBSD doc site seemed to imply that= =20 > I would need the shell approach to do what I wanted, so I mostly just=20 > went w/ that, maybe more pilot error :-/ .... Personally, to keep things simple I like to install FreeBSD on a simple UFS partition. Once the system is up and running I can then mirror/raid the data drives any way I choose. There is a wiki page about setting up FreeBSD on a mirrored ZFS boot drive though; https://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot/9.0-RELEASE Roland --=20 R.F.Smith http://rsmith.home.xs4all.nl/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 5753 3324 1661 B0FE 8D93 FCED 40F6 D5DC A38A 33E0 (keyID: A38A33E0) --Md/poaVZ8hnGTzuv Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIbBAEBAgAGBQJT3CKrAAoJEED21dyjijPgWjoP+JOYO6REF5XJRylwbSWWWV+f 91rvvsJ4YYqgjjS6YVewZBSIiLFiwj2GVtkuNgHlr/UfcJyLW0tFiMsXRbPPU6nT 217KAFGLhDczQcTfmt0MJ8K3SW1xkSVHDIOIFyho/Q4hdwBe6BE23kS5vcS8ESMW rQ26DaBC5lgg2e5lRrepDnHsANHPNbaapVdig3UMNIWwb3mmHTCWELP5E4b4QMZW +iEg2O3jSmZSZ6LbkLvKCR0PHPLqabortwUuv6iqyp0MoPUaDD5pX18qkSD5FVFv 1++Hejt3E+/eA0XTBV3nk9mNCQm5t5avHM70gLgViokLSnTmfT8JRGRT96awDvie rkgrSs5jXF5nDzSzKUWdJeTp8a3VpQzoSh0UNv098Xb4OQOSKW+2rizcFdzfuzG7 qglD3Yywqk1XFSK1U996XVXPOWXn9nbsVATQwPIQwIrVFtLZYQXQ1c/hZbxOJTg+ w8o3Zl1ot0/xab6WARZoUS0qa9Rv3Fb6k8pRyfNMXAWkSFHvlhD/LFjfLnmkxxTA x2Xu+t4iNZt0UEmD8M9DB4/Fnyc6qBOfdeBcXkF0e7sc4SI24NhExADjEzR/ZAkr UTUv6I878ZsYpkn8jfROi/kwAHSas5X3Ac3PSO5z7maMngyqVHUDd3efbb7xGqIq 0t1CxHURtyBeArgPWHg= =7A47 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Md/poaVZ8hnGTzuv--