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Subject: Re: A litte more help with creating a freebsd partition on an
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"steve" <steve@digitalbluesky.net> writes:

> This is a follow-up to my earlier question on how to create a freebsd
> partition on a usbdrive.  I followed these instructions:
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/formatting-media/x163.ht
> ml And was able to create a 111 gig freebsd partition on the usb hard
> drive, with label da0s1d and /mnt/usbdrive as it's mount point.
> However, when I try to:
> ># mount /dev/da0s1d /mnt/usbdrive
> 
> I get the error:
> ># mount: /dev/da0s1d: no such file or directory
> 
> In /dev I see an entry for da0s1 and da0s1c but no entry for
> da0s1d. Any help in determining what I have missed? Steve

You say you were able to create it as da0s1d; how do you *know* you
were able to do that.  It doesn't look as though you did.  Are there
*any* /dev/da* devices? 

What if you rescan the USB bus?