Geom question

[William A. Mahaffey III]

On 10/02/15 15:31, Chad J. Milios wrote:
>> On Oct 2, 2015, at 3:41 PM, William A. Mahaffey III <wam at hiwaay.net> wrote:
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>> I am prepping to provision 2 boxen w/ FreeBSD 9.3R, preferably from a thumb drive. I would like to add a 'utils' directory w/ some scripts I wrote to automate the partitioning/slicing of the HDD's (2X on 1 box, 8X on the other), & also accumulate output from the install process in case questions arise. To that end, I am planning on partitioning/slicing a thumb drive, prepping it to be bootable following examples on the gpart man page, & copying verbatim stuff from the memstick.img for 9.3R that I downloaded a while back, as well as adding my utils directory. Reading up on gpart & geom raises 1 question: can I do all these preps on a disk image file I create w/ dd, or do i do them in place on the target memstick, then dd the results onto an on-disk image for safekeeping ? Put another way, can a disk image created by dd be a 'geom' for gpart ? TIA & have a good one.
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>>     William A. Mahaffey III
> In a way, yes. `mdconfig -f filename` will make your file accessible as a virtual device.
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Then to be accessed as /dev/md0 ? Any other clues/gotchas :-) ? Thanks & 
TIA & have a good one.

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