From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 6 11:38:45 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC60B37B401 for ; Tue, 6 May 2003 11:38:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Gina.esfm.ipn.mx (esfm.ipn.mx [148.204.102.61]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1DA943FAF for ; Tue, 6 May 2003 11:38:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mrspock@esfm.ipn.mx) Received: from Gina.esfm.ipn.mx (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Gina.esfm.ipn.mx (8.12.6p2/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h46IbPNY095622; Tue, 6 May 2003 13:37:25 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from mrspock@esfm.ipn.mx) Received: from localhost (mrspock@localhost)h46IbPcm095619; Tue, 6 May 2003 13:37:25 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: Gina.esfm.ipn.mx: mrspock owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 13:37:25 -0500 (CDT) From: Eduardo Viruena Silva To: Guy Van Sanden In-Reply-To: <1052245053.17199.0.camel@cronos.home.vsb> Message-ID: <20030506133306.T95484@Gina.esfm.ipn.mx> References: <1052245053.17199.0.camel@cronos.home.vsb> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Simple mirror / bootmanager X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 May 2003 18:38:46 -0000 On Tue, 6 May 2003, Guy Van Sanden wrote: > Hello guys > > How can I install the bootmanager to a disk? /stand/sysinstall Configure | fdisk and press "Q" and you will be asked to write boot manager. > The disk is ad1 (primary slave) and is only intended to be booted when > the first disk is removed (so becoming ad0 at that point). > It should be immediately bootable when made primary (e.g. in another > machine) > > What I want to do is this. > I have two disk of the same size (give or take a couple of kilobytes), > but with a different geometry. > > Only the first disk is used (contains separate / swap /var /tmp /usr > /home /data). > > What I want to do is use the second disk as a mirror by creating the > same slice layout, tarring the contents of the original disk and > rsyncing them to the second disk once a day. If my first disk fails, I > can simply put the second disk as master or even put it in another > machine until the server is rebuilt. > I don't want to use software mirroring (with vinum), because of the > performance hit and complexity. > > I can do all of this, but I don't know how to get the bootmanager on it. > > The system is FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE on A PII-333 with two 40 GB disks. > > Thanks for any help. > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >