On 13 Aug 2003, Brooks Davis wrote: > My workaround was to split the array into a 2 disk RAID1 and a 6 disk > RAID5. Sysinstall will install on the small mirror and then you can use > the RAID5 array raw. On some other systems, I'm not going to be booting > from the arrays so I'll use the entire array as a large RAID5 volume > without any partions. Duh. I should have thought of something along these lines. I just left my 1.75GB RAID-5 array in place and only took a few gigabytes out of it for slice 1. Then I installed everything into that for the base system. Worked like a charm. Next I went ahead post installation and did cvsup and used fdisk and disklabel (outside sysinstall of course) to create the current, ridiculous slice and partition. Yay. :) --- /dev/twed0s2a 1.5T 2.0K 1.5T 0% /data Which reminds me, any chance of putting in more useful information to fdisk and disklabel from the command line? I had to fire up sysinstall just to figure out all the sector boundaries and sizes. What a pain! :) Anyway, thanks for the feedback. My brain was elsewhere. -- Mark Nipper e-contacts: Computing and Information Services nipsy_at_tamu.edu Texas A&M University http://ops.tamu.edu/nipsy/ College Station, TX 77843-3142 AIM/Yahoo: texasnipsy ICQ: 66971617 (979)575-3193 MSN: nipsy_at_tamu.edu -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- GG/IT d- s++:+ a-- C++$ UBL+++$ P--->+++ L+++$ E--- W++ N+ o K++ w(---) O++ M V(--) PS+++(+) PE(--) Y+ PGP++(+) t 5 X R tv b+++ DI+(++) D+ G e h r++ y+(**) ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ ---begin random quote of the moment--- "Do you believe in destiny, that even the powers of time can be ordered to a single purpose? The luckiest man who walks this earth is the one who finds true love." -- Dracula, "Bram Stoker's Dracula", 1992 ----end random quote of the moment----Received on Wed Aug 13 2003 - 19:10:28 UTC
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