Fresh install on gmirror'ed disks?

Mike Jakubik mikej at rogers.com
Fri Mar 3 01:59:13 UTC 2006


Patrick M. Hausen wrote:
> Hello!
>
>   
>> Is it possible to boot off the install CD, setup a gmirror, and then 
>> reboot and install on the mirror (and expect things to work ok)? Anyone 
>> try this? It would be nice if the installer let you do this...
>>     
>
> AFAIK, no.
>
> Install a minimal system on the first disk, then follow
> these instructions:
>
> http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200502/diskmirror.html
>   

Thats what i figured. Its sad that the fbsd installer is so behind the 
linux ones, in terms of setting up raid and lvm during install.



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