From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 26 8:22:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (oe4.law7.hotmail.com [216.33.236.108]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAB7937B718 for ; Mon, 26 Mar 2001 08:22:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from stephenj@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Mon, 26 Mar 2001 08:22:30 -0800 X-Originating-IP: [194.129.29.113] From: "stephenj" To: Subject: Problem With NEWFS When Installing FreeBSD; Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 17:19:32 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 26 Mar 2001 16:22:30.0648 (UTC) FILETIME=[F4A3C780:01C0B610] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I'm a newbie to FreeBsd and am trying my best to install it, I seem to get a problem back from NEWFS, it claims that my 'device is not configured'. I am installing to a empty harddisk, which happens to be a 'slave' drive in my system. I have set the option for NEWFS to what I think is correct for my harddrive (as well as trying the default)... I also used all the automatic options when slicing and creating partitions for the disk. 'newfs /dev/adlsla: Device Not Configured' - the original error i get back on standard error The problems results in an error that says 'unable to swap /dev/adb1s1b' and 'unable to make new root filesystem on /dev/ad1sla' on the install screen. Anyhelp would be much appreciated, I'm getting really desperate, Thanks Stephen J To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message