Monday, September 07, 2020

Re: Bootable installation partition on a hard drive?

On 7/9/20 5:07 pm, Walt wrote:
> I have a new server on order that should arrive in a few days. It's intended purpose is to replace my current firewall. It has no CD and so I'll make and use a bootable flash drive as described in the Installation Guide section of the FAQ.
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> The server will have a second ssd drive and so I got to wondering if it might be useful to create a bootable partition on the drive and install the installation on it.
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> I'm probably not going to do this but I am curious about whether it would work very well. I'll probably install a second copy of the OS on the second drive and mirror all configuration files to it so that if anything happens to the main drive, I can turn around and boot from the second and be up and running almost immediately.

Maybe you want to just run them in a softraid mirror...

https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#softraidDI

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> Thanks,
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> Walt
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