Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2015 17:17:01 -0453.75 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> To: FreeBSD Questions !!!! <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 9.3R installation question(s) Message-ID: <55EE0B93.7010402@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <55EDB00B.6090400@hiwaay.net> References: <55EDB00B.6090400@hiwaay.net>
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On 09/07/15 10:45, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
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> I will be bringing 2 new boxen online in the next few days/weeks. Both
> were originally intended to run CentOS6 (I even have kickstart files
> prepped & ready to go), however in view of recent success using
> VirtualBox (& in stark contrast to *serious* issues w/ same last year
> this time) & desire to reduce the .... aaaah .... dirversity of boxen
> on my LAN, I decided to use FreeBSD 9.3R on both. Both are AMD
> A-series APU based, 1 w/ 8 HDD's, to become my dev-box, the other w/ 2
> HDD's to be used as a home-theatre box w/ MythTV. I would like to
> optimize usage of disk space as much as possible on both boxen, so I
> am planning to partition the drives, then RAID the partitions, RAID1
> for root, RAID0 for others, notably /home, where the preponderance of
> data will reside on both boxen. Both setups are similar, but slightly
> more complex than this box, also 9.3R, w/ 4 HDD's, but root on a plain
> UFS partition, /usr on a 3-partition RAID0 (striped), & /home on a
> 4-partition RAID0. I am planning on RAID1 (mirrored) root drive for
> both boxen, both probably created from 16 GB partitions of 2.5" 1 TB
> HDD's, w/ 16 GB swap partitions, & /home getting the rest (*very*
> similar to how the drives on this box are setup). I had a fair amount
> of noob-ish issus w/ the setup of this boxen almost exactly a year
> ago, as was dramatically chronicled onlist. I eventually got
> everything going, w/ very good, patient, & necessary onlist help.
> Hoping to avert as much drama this time around as possible, I am
> planning to script the installs, to both reduce fat-fingered errors &
> to allow accurate documentation of the proceedings in case onlist help
> is needed. I have created 2 scripts for the MythTV box, culled from an
> online source which I downloaded last year, but can't recall
> immediately (I'll dredge it up if needed, but I *think* it was good,
> although slightly different from my setup). Both are designed to be
> called from appropriate points in the install process. I attach them
> below & have a couple of questions. The 'setup...' one is to be run
> before/during the partitioning process, & the other at the end, as
> indicated in comments. The online handbook indicates that bootcode can
> be installed on the mirrored root RAID after creation, & before newfs
> calls. Does this apply for both MBR & FreeBSD boot code ? The manual
> illustrates using MBR code, but the gpart man-page seems to imply
> either should work, comments please. Also, that script mounts both
> newly-created RAID partitions (root & /home) under /mnt before
> returning to the installer, is that proper ? In the 'finish...'
> script, the fstab file is written to '/tmp/bsd_install_etc', is that
> correct, or should it be written to the mounted newly-created root
> drive (or both) ? TIA & have a nice labor day.
I sent this earlier w/ 2 attachments, both of which show up in my sent
folder, however they *don't* show up in my in box. Does the list strip
off '.sh' files ? Please advise & have a good one.
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William A. Mahaffey III
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