From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 28 00:18:24 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 C0E1D16A41C for ; Sat, 28 May 2005 00:18:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5906543D1F for ; Sat, 28 May 2005 00:18:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tao.thought.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j4S0LDBw043865; Fri, 27 May 2005 17:21:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j4S0LDgE043864; Fri, 27 May 2005 17:21:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 17:21:12 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: FreeBSD Mailing List Message-ID: <20050528002112.GA31127@thought.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing 18++ years of service to the Unix community Cc: Subject: why can't FBSD create /dev/ad0s2e? 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: Sat, 28 May 2005 00:18:24 -0000 On my one box that has a 5G windows installation, I had (after the w2k) my RH-8.0. Last night I deleted the Linux stuff leaving only "NTFS". I then tryed to install' FreeBSD on the remaining ~~34G, but when I went to the menu to create the slices, a screen showed the err message "Can't create /dev/ad0s2e [or whatever]." Am I doing something dense? Upon quitting F1 pointed to "??" which I let bring up windows. Only a week ago I booted RH without any problem so it doesn't seem likely that the roughly 33-34GB are suddenly trashed. I did try to use *all* of the remaining disk, then use the FBSD bootloader, then chose "A" for the automatic default. Got error message; then started over and tried using 30G, then 25G, then 15 and 10GB. Any suggestions on what I can try next? gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix