Setup of a software RAID-1 to an existing system?

[Johnson David]

On Sunday 22 June 2003 12:19 pm, Johan Paul wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> I am pretty new to FreeBSD but thought it might be a nice idea to
> migrate from a Linux server to a FreeBSD one.
>
> My question is regarding software RAID-1 for this FreeBSD box. I have
> two IDE equally sized hard drives and I installed FreeBSD 4.8 on the
> other one. Now the question is: can I make a RAID-1 array of these
> two disks while FreeBSD is installed on the other one (using vinum or
> other...)? Or how do I get RAID-1 to work on these two disks?

The Complete FreeBSD (O'Reilly) has a complete chapter on Vinum. It is 
very well written, and includes a section on installing FreeBSD to 
Vinum.

David