Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 13:37:25 -0500 (CDT) From: Eduardo Viruena Silva <mrspock@esfm.ipn.mx> To: Guy Van Sanden <n.b@myrealbox.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Simple mirror / bootmanager Message-ID: <20030506133306.T95484@Gina.esfm.ipn.mx> In-Reply-To: <1052245053.17199.0.camel@cronos.home.vsb> References: <1052245053.17199.0.camel@cronos.home.vsb>
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On Tue, 6 May 2003, Guy Van Sanden wrote: > Hello guys > > How can I install the bootmanager to a disk? /stand/sysinstall Configure | fdisk and press "Q" and you will be asked to write boot manager. > The disk is ad1 (primary slave) and is only intended to be booted when > the first disk is removed (so becoming ad0 at that point). > It should be immediately bootable when made primary (e.g. in another > machine) > > What I want to do is this. > I have two disk of the same size (give or take a couple of kilobytes), > but with a different geometry. > > Only the first disk is used (contains separate / swap /var /tmp /usr > /home /data). > > What I want to do is use the second disk as a mirror by creating the > same slice layout, tarring the contents of the original disk and > rsyncing them to the second disk once a day. If my first disk fails, I > can simply put the second disk as master or even put it in another > machine until the server is rebuilt. > I don't want to use software mirroring (with vinum), because of the > performance hit and complexity. > > I can do all of this, but I don't know how to get the bootmanager on it. > > The system is FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE on A PII-333 with two 40 GB disks. > > Thanks for any help. > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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