From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 26 17: 4:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C7D637B719 for ; Mon, 26 Mar 2001 17:04:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id EEB8D6AB60; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 10:33:20 +0930 (CST) Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 10:33:20 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: stephenj Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem With NEWFS When Installing FreeBSD; Message-ID: <20010327103320.B19330@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from stephenj@hotmail.com on Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 05:19:32PM +0100 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday, 26 March 2001 at 17:19:32 +0100, stephenj wrote: > Hello, > > I'm a newbie to FreeBsd and am trying my best to install it, I seem to get a > problem back from NEWFS, it claims that my 'device is not configured'. I am > installing to a empty harddisk, which happens to be a 'slave' drive in my > system. I have set the option for NEWFS to what I think is correct for my > harddrive (as well as trying the default)... I also used all the automatic > options when slicing and creating partitions for the disk. > > 'newfs /dev/adlsla: Device Not Configured' - the original error i get back > on standard error > > The problems results in an error that says 'unable to swap /dev/adb1s1b' and > 'unable to make new root filesystem on /dev/ad1sla' on the install > screen. This looks like you've given the wrong names, either here or in your setup. What exactly did you enter? Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message