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Date:      Tue, 21 Apr 1998 07:18:38 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Edward Ing <question@cr343877-a.wlfdle1.on.wave.home.com>
To:        "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        satanix@earthlink.net
Subject:   Re: Hi! *PLEASE READ*
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980421071613.792A-100000@cr343877-a.wlfdle1.on.wave.home.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980420211044.239A-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu>

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On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Jason C. Wells wrote:

> On Mon, 20 Apr 1998 satanix@earthlink.net wrote:
> 
> > 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
....        
> >                 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?

wda5 looks like Linux device number.



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