Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 14:48:39 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Peter Ulrich Kruppa <root@pukruppa.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Stupid vinum questions Message-ID: <20031211041839.GK81968@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20031210174614.R64570@pukruppa.net> References: <20031210174614.R64570@pukruppa.net>
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--EVh9lyqKgK19OcEf Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday, 10 December 2003 at 17:57:56 +0100, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: > Hi! > > Before I start experimenting, I would like to find out, if I am > on the right track. > I have got some old and small SCSI harddisks left. > 1) Can I use vinum to make them look like one big ufs slice (or > is it more like a partition, which can be sliced)? Yes. > 2) Can I boot from such a thing, or do I need a seperate disk? You can't boot from a Vinum volume without a single-subdisk plex. That doesn't sound like what you want to build. > 3) Is there some fine manual around, that could be used as a > starting point for reading? (I had a look at at my copy of > "The Complete FreeBSD", but I guess I wouldn't ask these > questions, if I had understood it.) Maybe it would be a good start to say what you didn't understand in the book. That way I can fix it for other people too. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --EVh9lyqKgK19OcEf Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/1/AfIubykFB6QiMRAgw4AJ4+PNmqqpLoZIxfgn/+uvFGthPezACfe/Av 8RLnTz3uhTOaPheVioV06KA= =y4sA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --EVh9lyqKgK19OcEf--
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