From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 23 21:27:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nameserver.austclear.com.au (nameserver.austclear.com.au [192.83.119.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E71537B400 for ; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 21:27:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from tungsten.austclear.com.au (tungsten.austclear.com.au [192.168.70.1]) by nameserver.austclear.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA59494 for ; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 16:27:21 +1100 (EST) Received: from tungsten (tungsten [192.168.70.1]) by tungsten.austclear.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA14731; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 16:27:21 +1100 (EST) Message-Id: <200101240527.QAA14731@tungsten.austclear.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: installing onto vinum Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 16:27:21 +1100 From: Tony Landells Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm in the process of setting up a number of FreeBSD boxes and I'd like to have them all mirroring with vinum. What I can't work out is how to get vinum up and running with my mirrors for /var, /usr, etc. before I start installing packages. I've tried using the 2nd CD and doing the fdisk and disklabel from the command line, but while my fdisk seems to set the correct label on the disks (as shown by disklabel -r), I can't get it to update the "in core" data, which I think may then be upsetting vinum. Perhaps I just haven't done things in the right order... At the moment my best option seems to be to install on one disk, and then work through the boot disks for the other systems by installing them as a second disk, setting everything up and installing packages on it, then putting it back in the box it belongs to. There must be a better way. I hope. Thanks, Tony -- Tony Landells Senior Network Engineer Ph: +61 3 9677 9319 Australian Clearing Services Pty Ltd Fax: +61 3 9677 9355 Level 4, Rialto North Tower 525 Collins Street Melbourne VIC 3000 Australia To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message