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Date:      Mon, 20 Apr 1998 20:22:26 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        satanix@earthlink.net
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Hi! *PLEASE READ*
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980420202137.17940J-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980420121416.483A-100000@satanix>

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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



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