Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 20:30:51 +0100 From: "s" <stephenj@hotmail.com> To: "Greg Lehey" <grog@lemis.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Problem With NEWFS When Installing FreeBSD; Message-ID: <OE64tKarvzr0dSHpVyL0000530a@hotmail.com> References: <OE4yLD0WqS9cZRPD5CL000046d6@hotmail.com> <20010327103320.B19330@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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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 <grog@lemis.com> To: stephenj <stephenj@hotmail.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> 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
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