as punishment, here is yet another email so i have it all partitioned using fixit/dist. ad4p1 64k freebsd-boot ad4p2 64g freebsd-zfs (to use as zfs mirror) ad4p3 64g freebsd-swap ad4p4 2tb freebsd-zfs (to use as raidz2) same for ad5. ad6 and ad7 have only p1 to join the raidz2. but i can not build the boot zfs mirror because i can not follow the destructions at http://lulf.geeknest.org/blog/freebsd/Setting_up_a_zfs-only_system/ http://wiki.freebsd.org/AppleMacbook etc because fixit/dist is a world where i can not mount the zfs pool because / is read-only md0. so i can not set up the bootable zfs mirror system. and, to add to the fun. due to time pressure, i go to back off to my old faithful hack of small gmirrored boot partitions with big zfs. i dd whomp the base drives (dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da4 count=1000000). but it seems not to stomp them. the sysinstall fdisk partiton editor keeps seeing ad4p[1-4]! coffee or sleep, tough call. randyReceived on Tue May 19 2009 - 23:04:50 UTC
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