Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2015 16:25:08 -0400 From: "Chad J. Milios" <milios@ccsys.com> To: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions !!!! <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Geom question Message-ID: <3D81C7BC-1A31-4046-88B7-50F25EA3B952@ccsys.com> In-Reply-To: <560EDE45.3040605@hiwaay.net> References: <560EDE45.3040605@hiwaay.net>
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> On Oct 2, 2015, at 3:41 PM, William A. Mahaffey III <wam@hiwaay.net> wrote= : >=20 > I am prepping to provision 2 boxen w/ FreeBSD 9.3R, preferably from a thum= b drive. I would like to add a 'utils' directory w/ some scripts I wrote to a= utomate the partitioning/slicing of the HDD's (2X on 1 box, 8X on the other)= , & also accumulate output from the install process in case questions arise.= To that end, I am planning on partitioning/slicing a thumb drive, prepping i= t to be bootable following examples on the gpart man page, & copying verbati= m stuff from the memstick.img for 9.3R that I downloaded a while back, as we= ll as adding my utils directory. Reading up on gpart & geom raises 1 questio= n: can I do all these preps on a disk image file I create w/ dd, or do i do t= hem in place on the target memstick, then dd the results onto an on-disk ima= ge for safekeeping ? Put another way, can a disk image created by dd be a 'g= eom' for gpart ? TIA & have a good one. >=20 > --=20 >=20 > William A. Mahaffey III In a way, yes. `mdconfig -f filename` will make your file accessible as a vi= rtual device.=
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