From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 25 11:42:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (oe41.law8.hotmail.com [216.33.240.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6441337B718 for ; Sun, 25 Mar 2001 11:42:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sdjayna@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Sun, 25 Mar 2001 11:42:52 -0800 X-Originating-IP: [62.255.32.4] From: "sdjayna" To: Subject: Problems Installing FreeBSD on Slave Harddisk Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 20:42:52 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 25 Mar 2001 19:42:52.0282 (UTC) FILETIME=[C7ADCDA0:01C0B563] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I'm brand new to FreeBSD and have been trying for the past few days to get it going on my second hard disk (which I am devoting to FreeBSD). I have a CD-Rom of 4.2 (Stable) and am installing from scratch. I boot from the CD and follow the instructions on creating FreeBSD partitions. I use the (ALL) option when creating what I think is a 'slice'. Then I use the automatic option to create the different partitions such as /var /usr and Swap. All goes well, I choose the distribution (ALL), but here comes my problem on the next screen, an error message displays the following:- Unable to swap to /dev/adb1slb Unable to make new root filesystem on /dev/ad1sla ...and the install bails.... When doing Alt-F2 i get :- Can't open PC-card controller /dev/card0 . . newfs /dev/adlsla: Device Not Configured I've looked high and low for answers, please help, thanks for your time, Stephen Jayna sdjayna@hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message