Installing FreeBSD onto Vinum-volumes?

[Eivind Olsen]

Hello.

I'm about to install a new machine which will have 2 IDE-disks. I'd like to 
mirror some volumes between those disks while other volumes should be 
striped.
I'd like to do this with FreeBSD 5.1.

There's no data on the disks that I want/have to keep. Is it at all 
possible to configure Vinum and then install FreeBSD or will I have to 
install FreeBSD first and then "convert" to Vinum-volumes by manually 
editing the disklabel (with bsdlabel), calculating offsets etc.?

In other words, is there an easy way to do this? :)

(I already tried installing FreeBSD and then "converting" to Vinum but 
failed miserably and am now looking for an easy way out.)

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Eivind Olsen
eivind at aminor.no