From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 23 06:50:52 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 0A0CA37B401 for ; Wed, 23 Jul 2003 06:50:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from trisha.aminor.no (trisha.aminor.no [213.187.177.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FC8743F75 for ; Wed, 23 Jul 2003 06:50:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eivind@aminor.no) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by trisha.aminor.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 228CD2A99E for ; Wed, 23 Jul 2003 15:50:49 +0200 (CEST) Received: from trisha.aminor.no ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (trisha.eivind [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 12223-08 for ; Wed, 23 Jul 2003 15:50:38 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [10.122.7.157] (nextra-3-244.nextra.no [148.122.3.244]) by trisha.aminor.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5FCC29C84 for ; Wed, 23 Jul 2003 15:50:37 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 15:51:28 +0200 From: Eivind Olsen To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <61117392.1058975488@[10.122.7.157]> X-Mailer: Mulberry/3.0.3 (Win32) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at aminor.no Subject: Installing FreeBSD onto Vinum-volumes? 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: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 13:50:52 -0000 Hello. I'm about to install a new machine which will have 2 IDE-disks. I'd like to mirror some volumes between those disks while other volumes should be striped. I'd like to do this with FreeBSD 5.1. There's no data on the disks that I want/have to keep. Is it at all possible to configure Vinum and then install FreeBSD or will I have to install FreeBSD first and then "convert" to Vinum-volumes by manually editing the disklabel (with bsdlabel), calculating offsets etc.? In other words, is there an easy way to do this? :) (I already tried installing FreeBSD and then "converting" to Vinum but failed miserably and am now looking for an easy way out.) -- Eivind Olsen eivind@aminor.no