On 22 Sep 2007, at 01:13, Maxim Khitrov wrote:
On 9/21/07, Gabriel Dragffy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi all
Hoping to get some help setting up software RAID5. Guides on the
internet seem to be few and far between, and official documentation
is a little too technical. Basically I have 3 x 500GB hard drives
which I'd like to have in a raid5 configuration, using software, root
partition on their too would be a bonus. I'd be grateful for
assistance.
Best regards
Gabriel
From what I know, you're not going to be able to boot from them.
However, a simple solution to that is to get a 64+ MB USB flash drive
and put the kernel on that. Just use fdisk and bsdlabel to write the
boot blocks. As long as the kernel has all needed drivers and you
specify which root device to use (either via kernel configuration or
/etc/fstab), that should allow you to put everything else on the RAID
array. This is how I currently do full-disk encryption on my laptop
using GELI. Kernel is outside, everything else is encrypted, same idea
for RAID.
Hi Maxim
This sounds good. How exactly did you manage to encrypt discs and
then install freebsd there? I can just about setup software raid once
freebsd is installed, but by then I am unable to use a hard drive
because it already has freebsd on it.
Regards
gabe
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