From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 6 15:53:52 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA11068 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 15:53:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA11056 for ; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 15:53:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id AAA12600 for ; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 00:52:45 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id AAA22278 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 00:52:45 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.4/8.6.9) id AAA13225 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 00:30:42 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199603062330.AAA13225@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Problems installing 2.1.0-RELEASE To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 00:30:41 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from "Marc G. Fournier" at Mar 6, 96 03:37:19 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Marc G. Fournier wrote: > I can use fdisk to create the FreeBSD slice, and then label the > partitions I want, but when it goes to format it, it states that > > /dev/rsd0a doesn't exist Hmm, if i take this sentence, it would mean that the _device node_ did magically disappear? > When the label editor created the partitions, it created them as > > sd0s1a > > So, what I'm assuming, is that one of the procedures is creating > /dev/[r]sd0s1a, while the other is looking for /dev/rsd0a They are identical, the latter notation is the ``compatibility slice'', as the boot code will see it. Yours confusingly, -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)