From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 23 07:19:22 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D88D837B401 for ; Wed, 23 Jul 2003 07:19:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kanga.honeypot.net (kanga.honeypot.net [208.162.254.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC60843FA3 for ; Wed, 23 Jul 2003 07:19:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kirk@strauser.com) Received: from pooh.honeypot.net.strauser.com (kirk@pooh.honeypot.net [10.0.5.128]) by kanga.honeypot.net (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h6NEJKFl062012 for ; Wed, 23 Jul 2003 09:19:20 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from kirk@strauser.com) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <61117392.1058975488@[10.122.7.157]> From: Kirk Strauser Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 09:19:16 -0500 In-Reply-To: <61117392.1058975488@[10.122.7.157]> (Eivind Olsen's message of "Wed, 23 Jul 2003 15:51:28 +0200") Message-ID: <877k69z5p7.fsf@pooh.honeypot.net> Lines: 19 X-Mailer: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD onto Vinum-volumes? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 14:19:23 -0000 --=-=-= Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable At 2003-07-23T13:51:28Z, Eivind Olsen 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 --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA/Hpln5sRg+Y0CpvERAq95AJsER3j4LmTyGY0OaWIksbYY1VBb1gCgjFm6 6PpMzUNmmYDaaAt2pbllZxY= =hJRn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--