Stupid vinum questions

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

On Wednesday, 10 December 2003 at 17:57:56 +0100, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Before I start experimenting, I would like to find out, if I am
> on the right track.
> I have got some old and small SCSI harddisks left.
> 1) Can I use vinum to make them look like one big ufs slice (or
>    is it more like a partition, which can be sliced)?

Yes.

> 2) Can I boot from such a thing, or do I need a seperate disk?

You can't boot from a Vinum volume without a single-subdisk plex.
That doesn't sound like what you want to build.

> 3) Is there some fine manual around, that could be used as a
>    starting point for reading? (I had a look at at my copy of
>    "The Complete FreeBSD", but I guess I wouldn't ask these
>    questions, if I had understood it.)

Maybe it would be a good start to say what you didn't understand in
the book.  That way I can fix it for other people too.

Greg
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