On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 11:10:27PM -0500, Mark Nipper wrote: > On 13 Aug 2003, Brooks Davis wrote: > > My workaround was to split the array into a 2 disk RAID1 and a 6 disk > > RAID5. Sysinstall will install on the small mirror and then you can use > > the RAID5 array raw. On some other systems, I'm not going to be booting > > from the arrays so I'll use the entire array as a large RAID5 volume > > without any partions. > > Duh. I should have thought of something along these > lines. I just left my 1.75GB RAID-5 array in place and only took > a few gigabytes out of it for slice 1. Then I installed > everything into that for the base system. Worked like a charm. > > Next I went ahead post installation and did cvsup and used > fdisk and disklabel (outside sysinstall of course) to create the > current, ridiculous slice and partition. Yay. :) > --- > /dev/twed0s2a 1.5T 2.0K 1.5T 0% /data
Ahh, I though about that but got frustated with my other ideas not working and fell back to using two arrays. I may give that a shot since the system isn't in production yet. -- Brooks
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