From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 20 22:21:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA28459 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 22:21:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jason02.u.washington.edu (root@jason02.u.washington.edu [140.142.76.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA28434 for ; Tue, 21 Apr 1998 05:21:11 GMT (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from saul9.u.washington.edu (root@saul9.u.washington.edu [140.142.82.7]) by jason02.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.05) with ESMTP id WAA35960; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 22:21:11 -0700 Received: from s8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by saul9.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.04) with SMTP id WAA19830; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 22:21:10 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 21:19:54 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jason@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu Reply-To: "Jason C. Wells" To: satanix@earthlink.net cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hi! *PLEASE READ* In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. > > Thank You, > Zach I have some questions for you. Please answer them and repost your question to the list. I think people are "shrugging" becasue what you say makes completely no sense. I am betting that there is a certain piece of information that is needed to even begin to answer this question. OBTW, You never asked a question. :) Which partition program? Are you using a bootdisk? Which version are you trying to install? There is no such thing as wda5. Did you come up with wda5 or did FreeBSD? What are the specific error messages that you recieved? What type of hard drive(s) do you have? How are these drive(s) to be divided up between windows and BSD? Are you trying to keep windows around? Have fun, | Stop warning me about the latest virus. Learn more... Jason Wells | http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/CIACHoaxes.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message