Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2010 21:02:58 +0100 From: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: sysinstall(8) && bsdlabel a new disk Message-ID: <20101031200258.GA1302@tiny.Sisis.de>
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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 <guru@unixarea.de> - w http://www.unixarea.de/
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