Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 22:46:23 +0400 From: Dmitry Mityugov <dmitry.mityugov@gmail.com> To: "Gary W. Swearingen" <garys@opusnet.com> Cc: A R <dr0id0@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd 5.4 -R install error Message-ID: <b7052e1e05073111465df2b4c4@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <szpssz6k3y.ssz@mail.opusnet.com> References: <f380400405073021567ad0325e@mail.gmail.com> <szpssz6k3y.ssz@mail.opusnet.com>
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On 7/31/05, Gary W. Swearingen <garys@opusnet.com> wrote: > A R <dr0id0@gmail.com> writes: >=20 > > On install i get this error : Unable to find device node for > > /dev/ad0s1b in /dev! The creation of filesystems will be aborted >=20 > It looks like it was trying to do something (swapon?) with the swap > device, but the "devfs" system never created a /dev/ad0s1b for it > because (I'm guessing) you never asked for one during the "disk > labeling" part of the install. Except that I'd be suprised if it > would let you out of the disk labeler without insisting upon a swap > device. (Not that one SHOULD be required.) It lets you do it just fine (last time I tried it was 5.3) --=20 Dmitry Mityugov, St. Petersburg, Russia I ignore all messages with confidentiality statements "We live less by imagination than despite it" - Rockwell Kent, "N by E"
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