Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2014 09:18:18 -0500 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> To: "FreeBSD Questions !!!!" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 9.3 new install problems .... Message-ID: <53DCF32A.30700@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <20140801232843.GB17393@slackbox.erewhon.home> References: <53DAFCF2.2070909@hiwaay.net> <alpine.BSF.2.11.1407312131550.50731@wonkity.com> <53DB9797.1010702@hiwaay.net> <20140801164335.GA16376@slackbox.erewhon.home> <53DBF71D.3080807@hiwaay.net> <20140801232843.GB17393@slackbox.erewhon.home>
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On 08/01/14 18:28, Roland Smith wrote: > 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 >> >> I poked around a bit (*not* much), & missed anything RAID-related in the >> installer .... is that on me ? The FreeBSD doc site seemed to imply that >> I would need the shell approach to do what I wanted, so I mostly just >> 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 I tried that & it worked, I am up & running, but on only 1/4 drives. I know ZFS can add drive/providers to stripes or mirrors, how about UFS ? I can create the stripe for /home & arrange for that to be mounted, but what about root ? Is there a way to create a stripe from 1 or more possibly partitions ? TIA for any more clues .... -- William A. Mahaffey III ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war ever devised by man." -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.
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