From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 3 19:05:28 2009 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 986051065677 for ; Fri, 3 Jul 2009 19:05:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from drew@mykitchentable.net) Received: from smtp1.mc.surewest.net (qsmtp.mc.surewest.net [66.60.130.145]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 22DF98FC18 for ; Fri, 3 Jul 2009 19:05:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from drew@mykitchentable.net) Received: (qmail 10769 invoked from network); 3 Jul 2009 12:26:08 -0700 Received: by simscan 1.1.0 ppid: 10763, pid: 10764, t: 2.1811s scanners: regex: 1.1.0 attach: 1.1.0 spam: 3.1.7-deb X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.7-deb (2006-10-05) on smtp1.surewest.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=10.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.1.7-deb X-Spam-CMAE-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=6I5d2MoRAAAA:8 a=jDt-9pEAAAAA:8 a=6J0fAqKotmp8V8qjrlcA:9 a=CZrTPm1I0OXt0h4H9fTKEXqzbtQA:4 a=R35AumO-WOIA:10 Received: from unknown (HELO blacklamb.mykitchentable.net) (69.62.230.77) by smtp1 with SMTP; 3 Jul 2009 12:26:06 -0700 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (bigdaddy.mykitchentable.net [192.168.1.3]) by blacklamb.mykitchentable.net (Postfix) with ESMTPA id BA228165C21 for ; Fri, 3 Jul 2009 12:05:23 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=mykitchentable.net; s=default; t=1246647924; bh=dGcn4+/Kup6gw6xh9+wp09x5/xo22vEupTCtf1soLqI=; h=Message-ID:Date:From:MIME-Version:To:Subject:Content-Type: Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=Y0S0Re394Lx/X6P6iEk16ZJTOdTwyk31dw5qqVZt6jmWMi9IL2jjF0mx8fhpryJ5B 2HwMJJ0aFWPYKYiO9D4P/ERS50otZ6PXsaAIXjYXuehIparkZyetlP1L09dBjjuOLT jj7FGIOPtJ4rfoIz04N+SKtbl/LdXbNUHGZy3amE= Message-ID: <4A4E5669.8070308@mykitchentable.net> Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:05:13 -0700 From: Drew Tomlinson User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Windows/20090605) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 090703-0, 07/03/2009), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Subject: Fix It CD, bsdlabel, and /dev? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:05:28 -0000 Sorry for the poor subject. Thanks for reading. I'm using this page as a guide but am at the console so I'm just using the Fix It CD: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/remote-install/installation.html I'm attempting to install FBSD 7.2 64bit on a fresh machine. The machine has 3 500G drives and 1 750G drive. I'm trying to mirror root with gmirror. Following the examples, I've used fdisk to create one slice for each drive that uses the entire disk. Next I used bsdlabel and created 500M a: partitions on two of the drives (ad6 & ad8). However /dev/ad6s1a and /dev/ad8s1a do not exist. I do have entries such as /dev/ad6a and/dev/ad8a but gmirror doesn't like those. What must I do the get them to show after I've labeled? Thanks, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com