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> > FBSD sees each partition on each hard drive as an separate hard
> > drive, just like windows does.
>
> I see. Thanks for the info. I now have to find out why the installer
cannot
> write the root filesystem.

On second thoughts, is it not that the "s1" after "ad6", is counting the
primary partitions on ATA drives? So, ad6s1 means: "the first primary
partition of ATA drive 6" Am I wrong?

Teilhard Knight
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