From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 31 19:01:15 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E100106566B for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2010 19:01:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from guru@unixarea.de) Received: from ms16-1.1blu.de (ms16-1.1blu.de [89.202.0.34]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15E3D8FC12 for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2010 19:01:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [109.85.73.168] (helo=tiny.Sisis.de.) by ms16-1.1blu.de with esmtpsa (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PCd9T-0004nP-Ub for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 31 Oct 2010 20:01:12 +0100 Received: from tiny.Sisis.de. (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tiny.Sisis.de. (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o9VK308q001329 for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2010 21:03:00 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from guru@unixarea.de) Received: (from guru@localhost) by tiny.Sisis.de. (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id o9VK2xxF001328 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 31 Oct 2010 21:02:59 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from guru@unixarea.de) X-Authentication-Warning: tiny.Sisis.de.: guru set sender to guru@unixarea.de using -f Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2010 21:02:58 +0100 From: Matthias Apitz To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20101031200258.GA1302@tiny.Sisis.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT (i386) User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) X-Con-Id: 51246 X-Originating-IP: 109.85.73.168 Subject: sysinstall(8) && bsdlabel a new disk X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Matthias Apitz List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2010 19:01:15 -0000 Hello, I installed a 9-CURRENT from an USB key to a hard disk of a laptop and encountered a strange problem: I booted the USB key to normal multiuser mode and wanted to wipe out the Windows on the disk, create one slice ad4s1 and partitions in it for /, /usr, /var, ... I thought the simplest way would be just run sysinstall(8) and use the FDISK and BSDLABEL from the post-install dialog. FDISK went fine and in the BSDLABEL dialog I just used 'A' (auto defaults). On 'W' (write to disk) the sysinstall(8) complained about 'unable to open /dev/ad4s1a and so on for all the created partitions a...f. And also in the dev fs there were no entries created for /dev/ad4s1[a-f]. They apeared after a reboot of the system from the USB key. How this is supposed to work using sysinstall(8) or should one use only bsdlabel(8) directly in such a case? Thanks matthias -- Matthias Apitz t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e - w http://www.unixarea.de/