Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 13:40:18 -0500 From: "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> To: "Rakhesh Sasidharan" <rakhesh@rakhesh.com> Cc: Terrence Wilson <tjw43@drexel.edu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation problem Message-ID: <d7195cff0707301140n251efd72i384f49f4d9f2ea4@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20070730100844.M99888@scrat.home.rakhesh.com> References: <5751445.1185759689310.JavaMail.tjw43@drexel.edu> <20070730100844.M99888@scrat.home.rakhesh.com>
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On 30/07/07, Rakhesh Sasidharan <rakhesh@rakhesh.com> wrote: > > On Sun, 29 Jul 2007, Terrence Wilson wrote: > > > I'm trying to install FreeBSD as part of a dual boot config on a hard > > disk which already contains Windows XP. I have created a partition for > > FreeBSD. My problem comes once I "commit" to the installation of > > FreeBSD. I get the following message, after which installation aborts: > > "Unable to find device node for /dev/ad4s2b in /dev! The creation of > > filesystems will be aborted." What am I doing wrong? > > Are you trying to install FreeBSD in an extended partition? The > /dev/ad*4*s2b makes me think so ... /dev/ad4 is probably his first SATA drive, the integer following "s" is the slice number (partition in the magical windows world) and if greater than 4 indicates an extended slice. -- --
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