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Date:      Sun, 15 Feb 2004 20:11:45 -0600
From:      "Teilhard Knight" <teilhk@hotpost.co.uk>
To:        "FreeBSD" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, <Barbish3@adelphia.net>
Subject:   Re: ad6s1
Message-ID:  <022501c3f432$3bb70c60$210110ac@ARLETTE>
References:  <MIEPLLIBMLEEABPDBIEGEEDHFLAA.Barbish3@adelphia.net> <020701c3f431$009c8b60$210110ac@ARLETTE>

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> > FBSD sees each partition on each hard drive as an separate hard
> > drive, just like windows does.
>
> I see. Thanks for the info. I now have to find out why the installer
cannot
> write the root filesystem.

On second thoughts, is it not that the "s1" after "ad6", is counting the
primary partitions on ATA drives? So, ad6s1 means: "the first primary
partition of ATA drive 6" Am I wrong?

Teilhard Knight
The Extraterrestrial

Change "privacy" for "softhome" if you want to intrude my inbox



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