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Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 22:46:23 +0400
From: Dmitry Mityugov <dmitry.mityugov@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: freebsd 5.4 -R install error
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On 7/31/05, Gary W. Swearingen <garys@opusnet.com> wrote:
> A R <dr0id0@gmail.com> writes:
>=20
> > On install i get this error : Unable to find device node for
> > /dev/ad0s1b in /dev! The creation of filesystems will be aborted
>=20
> 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.)

It lets you do it just fine (last time I tried it was 5.3)

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Dmitry Mityugov, St. Petersburg, Russia
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