From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 19 4:58:38 2003 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 6051537B401 for ; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 04:58:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from mx.kappa.ro (dial.kappa.ro [194.102.255.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1EDD43F18 for ; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 04:58:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from itetcu@staffcollection.ro) Received: from gw (staff.kappa.ro [194.102.253.132]) by mx.kappa.ro with esmtp; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 14:58:34 +0200 From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu To: Willie Viljoen , itetcu@staffcollection.ro Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 15:02:27 +0200 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Reply-To: itetcu@staffcollection.ro In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Subject: Re: MakeDev: Unknown major/minor... when trying to label the 2nd SCSI HDD Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Opera 6.05 build 1140 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 1/19/03 2:39:27 PM, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: >1/19/03 2:07:58 PM, Willie Viljoen wrote: > >>Sounds to me like sysinstall is trying to make the devices. This means they >>aren't there. You're using a RELEASE kernel, so the device numbers shouldn't >>be different, but you never know. You might want to try creating the nodes >>before hand, sothat sysinstall doesn't have to: >> >> cd /dev && sh MAKEDEV all > >Already done that, but it's the same. When doing newfs ... i get the error. > >>>Now try sysinstall again. now disklabel da1: 8 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] b: 5120000 5120000 swap # (Cyl. 318*- 637*) c: 71681967 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 4461*) e: 5120000 0 4.2BSD 2048 16384 89 # (Cyl. 0 - 318*) f: 61441967 10240000 4.2BSD 2048 16384 89 # (Cyl. 637*- 4461*) and i wanted to be: a: 5120000 0 4.2BSD 2048 16384 89 # (Cyl. 0 - 318*) b: 5120000 5120000 swap # (Cyl. 318*- 637*) c: 71681967 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 4461*) e: 61441967 10240000 4.2BSD 2048 16384 89 # (Cyl. 637*- 4461*) so in place of a i have the e. BUT if I try to mount the e or f I get a device busy. IOnut To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message