Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 09:53:18 +0000 From: Richard Hesketh <R.L.Hesketh@ukc.ac.uk> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Post 2.1 installation /dev/wd0 remarks... Message-ID: <850.817638798@crane>
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Hi, Firstly, thanks to everyone involved in the 2.1 release, it is really great to use (my order for the CDROM is awaiting its production 8-). The installation was simple and painless, once I found a full UK mirror! Last week I configured and rebuilt the kernel to get it to see my ATAPI CDROM and soundcard. Last night I did a MAKEDEV to create some the snd0 devices and found that it removed my hard disk partitions! When I installed 2.1, it created the following partitions: /dev/wd0a / /dev/wd0s2e /var /dev/wd0s2f /usr it was the wd0s2? devices that "MAKEDEV all" removed. When I rebooted it rightly complained that it could not mount /var and /usr, this was the point at which I noticed the different device naming for the partitions 8-) I remounted the partitions as /dev/wd0e and /dev/wd0f and everything is hunky dory again. So my question/remark is this, why did the installation floppy create the partitions with the "slice" numbers in them, ie. "s2" (s1 being my MS-DROSS/Messy-Windows slice) for /var and /usr and not for / ? No answer required, I was just curious! Regards, Richard Hesketh
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