From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 2 14:12:12 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1168571F for ; Sat, 2 Aug 2014 14:12:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fly.hiwaay.net (fly.hiwaay.net [216.180.54.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D01ED24AB for ; Sat, 2 Aug 2014 14:12:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.4] (rbn1-216-180-76-175.adsl.hiwaay.net [216.180.76.175]) by fly.hiwaay.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/fly) with ESMTP id s72EC3WP026163 for ; Sat, 2 Aug 2014 09:12:03 -0500 Message-ID: <53DCF32A.30700@hiwaay.net> Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2014 09:18:18 -0500 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130625 Thunderbird/17.0.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "FreeBSD Questions !!!!" Subject: Re: FreeBSD 9.3 new install problems .... References: <53DAFCF2.2070909@hiwaay.net> <53DB9797.1010702@hiwaay.net> <20140801164335.GA16376@slackbox.erewhon.home> <53DBF71D.3080807@hiwaay.net> <20140801232843.GB17393@slackbox.erewhon.home> In-Reply-To: <20140801232843.GB17393@slackbox.erewhon.home> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2014 14:12:12 -0000 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.