Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 20:22:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: satanix@earthlink.net Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hi! *PLEASE READ* Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980420202137.17940J-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980420121416.483A-100000@satanix>
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On Mon, 20 Apr 1998 satanix@earthlink.net wrote: > Hi there, and thank you for taking the time to read my letter. I have a > major problem installing FreeBSD, and no one has been able to help me, > I've asked hundreds of people and I either get a *shrug* or an "i have no > clue". My problem is, when in the partition program, after making my > FreeBSD slices, it names the device X, not wda5. Therefore, later in the > install process it fails to create the file system because there is no > such thing as /dev/X. I have no idea why it is doing this, and you are my > last resort. Any help would be tremendously appreciated. Please be *very* specific as to what you're doing. I've never seen the behavior you're seeing. Also post the output of the boot messages -- you can use scroll lock and the arrow keys to view it if it's scrolled off. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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