On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 1:20 AM, <per...@pluto.rain.com> wrote:
> Adam Vande More <amvandem...@gmail.com> wrote:
[SNIP]
> The question is, how do I go about partitioning gm0 from Fixit?
> I've seen nothing so far that describes how to go about creating
> multiple partitions on a gmirror (or on anything else, for that
> matter) without either using sysinstall or having to understand
> gpart.
I've used something like this from the Fixit console (using /dev/ad0
as an example):
Fixit# kldload /dist/boot/kernel/geom_mirror.ko
Fixit# gmirror -v -b round-robin gm0 /dev/ad0
Fixit# fdisk -v -B -I /dev/mirror/gm0
Fixit# bsdlabel -w -B /dev/mirror/gm0s1
Partition with:
# bsdlabel -e /dev/mirror/gm0s1
Create a UFS file system (with Soft Updates):
Fixit# newfs -U /dev/mirror/gm0s1a
Mount the newly created file system:
Fixit# mount /dev/mirror/gm0s1a /mnt
...then follow one of the procedures for doing a "manual" install from
fixit, e.g.
Fixit# cd /dist/8.1-*
Fixit# export DESTDIR=/mnt
Fixit# for dir in base catpages dict doc games info lib32 manpages ports; \
do (cd $dir ; ./install.sh) ; done
Fixit# cd src ; ./install.sh all
Fixit# cd ../kernels ; ./install.sh generic
Fixit# cd /mnt/boot ; cp -Rlp GENERIC/* /mnt/boot/kernel/
[taken from http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot/Mirror]
> OK, given the system's age I will presume that it is not, thus
> (I suppose) no reason to deal with gpart.
I've used GPT partitioning on all of my machines, ranging from a
circa-2000 Toshiba Pentium 3 junker to a new i7 Quad Core beast. No
problem so far, and it is a lot more logical (IMHO) than the
fdisk/bsdlabel method. Also, the "manual" installation method
demonstrated above hasn't failed me yet.
Having stated all of this, I will say that I spent time reading the
handbook, quite a few man pages, and a a wiki article here and there
-- and I still feel only slightly more comfortable than I did after my
first successful attempt! It is starting to "come together" for me
now, finally :)
Well, I hope this helps you get unstuck...
Good Luck!
-Brandon
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