From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 31 15:59:38 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D2EC16A41F for ; Sun, 31 Jul 2005 15:59:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from garys@opusnet.com) Received: from opusnet.com (mail.opusnet.com [209.210.200.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50FD243D45 for ; Sun, 31 Jul 2005 15:59:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from garys@opusnet.com) Received: from localhost.localhost [70.98.246.232] by opusnet.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-8.05) id A568457C00E2; Sun, 31 Jul 2005 08:59:36 -0700 Received: from localhost.localhost (localhost.localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localhost (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j6VG0sD2033946; Sun, 31 Jul 2005 09:00:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from garys@opusnet.com) Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localhost (8.13.3/8.13.3/Submit) id j6VG0nFp033945; Sun, 31 Jul 2005 09:00:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from garys@opusnet.com) To: A R References: From: garys@opusnet.com (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 09:00:49 -0700 In-Reply-To: (A. R.'s message of "Sun, 31 Jul 2005 00:56:14 -0400") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) XEmacs/21.4 (Jumbo Shrimp, berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd 5.4 -R install error 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: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 15:59:38 -0000 A R writes: > On install i get this error : Unable to find device node for > /dev/ad0s1b in /dev! The creation of filesystems will be aborted It looks like it was trying to do something (swapon?) with the swap device, but the "devfs" system never created a /dev/ad0s1b for it because (I'm guessing) you never asked for one during the "disk labeling" part of the install. Except that I'd be suprised if it would let you out of the disk labeler without insisting upon a swap device. (Not that one SHOULD be required.)