6.0 RELEASE and Volume Managers

[Yousef Raffah]

On Sun, 2006-05-07 at 10:33 -0600, security wrote:
> Daniel Eriksson wrote:
> 
> >Yousef Raffah wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>How can I have my volumes configured? Is it after the system is being
> >>installed or during installation? Please forgive my newbie 
> >>questions :|
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >You need to configure your arrays BEFORE you install FreeBSD. Once the
> >arrays have been set up properly you can install FreeBSD. Because the
> >card presents each array that you have defined as a regular disk to the
> >system, just select the appropriate disk (most likely da0) during
> >sysinstall to get FreeBSD to partition/slice it up for you.
> >  
> >
> Try and get the SmartStart CD's (from HP).  It'll make setting up lots 
> easier and you can load the latest code on the controllers.
OK, I found out that my array has been already set up as RAID 5, which
is what I'm looking for. Do you think it is time now to configure the
volumes or is there something else needs to be done before that?


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Sincerely,
Yousef Raffah
Senior Systems Administrator
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