From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 27 11:22:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (oe64.law7.hotmail.com [216.33.236.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1412737B719 for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 11:22:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from stephenj@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 11:22:31 -0800 X-Originating-IP: [62.255.32.4] From: "s" To: "Greg Lehey" Cc: References: <20010327103320.B19330@wantadilla.lemis.com> Subject: Re: Problem With NEWFS When Installing FreeBSD; Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 20:30:51 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 27 Mar 2001 19:22:31.0834 (UTC) FILETIME=[450FB7A0:01C0B6F3] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, Thanks for the response, I never had an oportunity when doing an install from the bootable CD to choice any device names, is there somewhere where I can do this? Thanks Steve J ----- Original Message ----- From: Greg Lehey To: stephenj Cc: Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 2:03 AM Subject: Re: Problem With NEWFS When Installing FreeBSD; > 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