From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 20 20:23:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA08271 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 20:23:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA08255 for ; Tue, 21 Apr 1998 03:23:09 GMT (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA18065; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 20:22:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 20:22:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: satanix@earthlink.net cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hi! *PLEASE READ* In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 20 Apr 1998 satanix@earthlink.net wrote: > Hi there, and thank you for taking the time to read my letter. I have a > major problem installing FreeBSD, and no one has been able to help me, > I've asked hundreds of people and I either get a *shrug* or an "i have no > clue". My problem is, when in the partition program, after making my > FreeBSD slices, it names the device X, not wda5. Therefore, later in the > install process it fails to create the file system because there is no > such thing as /dev/X. I have no idea why it is doing this, and you are my > last resort. Any help would be tremendously appreciated. Please be *very* specific as to what you're doing. I've never seen the behavior you're seeing. Also post the output of the boot messages -- you can use scroll lock and the arrow keys to view it if it's scrolled off. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message