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Date:      Wed, 22 Sep 1999 11:11:32 -0400 (EDT)
From:      George Uhl <uhl@mamba-e.gsfc.nasa.gov>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Problems installing 3.3
Message-ID:  <199909221511.LAA09037@mamba-e.gsfc.nasa.gov>

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I'm installing FreeBSD 3.3 fresh on a PC with NT 
and Linux already installed.  I repartition the 
disk (preserving the NT & Linux paritions).  The
repartioned table is as follows:

 Offset    Size      End Name      Desc Subtype Flg
 ------    ----      --- ----      ---- ------- ---
      0      63       62   -     unused       0 =
     63 4112577  4112639 wd0s1      fat       6 =
4112640  529200  4641839 wd0s2   ext2fs     131 =
4641840  211680  4641839 wd0s3  freebsd     165 C=
4853520 3583440  8436959 wd0s4   ext2fs     131 =
8436960 4158000 12594959     X  freebsd     165 =

The Disklabels table configuration:

 Part   Mount     Size Newfs
 ----   -----     ---- -----
wd0s1   <none>  2008MB DOS
wd0s3a  /        103MB UFS Y
X       swap     256MB SWAP
X       /var     100MB UFS Y
X       /usr    1674MB UFS Y

When I commit the install I get an pop-up window
error message:

Unable to make device node for /dev/X in dev!
The creation of file systems will be aborted.

The Debug output from <ALT-F2> follows:

DEBUG: installcommit: System state is 'init'
DEBUG: diskPartitionWrite: Examining 1 devices
DEBUG: Scanning disk wd0 for root filesystem
DEBUG: Found rootdev at wd0s3a!
DEBUG: Found vardev at X!
DEBUG: Found usrdev at X!
DEBUG: Scanning disk wd0 for swap partitions
DEBUG: Found swapdev at X!

Is this disk partition scheme salvageable or do I
need to repartition the disk drive and reinstall
FreeBSD and Linux?

Thanks,
George


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