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Date:      Wed, 23 Jul 2003 09:19:16 -0500
From:      Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Installing FreeBSD onto Vinum-volumes?
Message-ID:  <877k69z5p7.fsf@pooh.honeypot.net>
In-Reply-To: <61117392.1058975488@[10.122.7.157]> (Eivind Olsen's message of "Wed, 23 Jul 2003 15:51:28 %2B0200")
References:  <61117392.1058975488@[10.122.7.157]>

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At 2003-07-23T13:51:28Z, Eivind Olsen <eivind@aminor.no> writes:

> There's no data on the disks that I want/have to keep. Is it at all
> possible to configure Vinum and then install FreeBSD or will I have to
> install FreeBSD first and then "convert" to Vinum-volumes by manually
> editing the disklabel (with bsdlabel), calculating offsets etc.?

I've had great success with configuring an initial tiny partition as '/' and
doing a minimal installation (and I mean *minimal*, as in, there's nothing
else you can remove and still have it boot).  The first step after booting
the new system is then configuring vinum, adding volumes for /usr, /var, and
so on, and moving the (small!) amount of data from the "physical" filesystem
to their vinum counterparts.  Once that's up, I do a more complete install
with /stand/sysinstall.

Out of curiosity, what offsets have you had to calculate?
=2D-=20
Kirk Strauser

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