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Subject: Re: "Unable to find device node for ./dev/ad4s1b in /dev"
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On 18 sep 2010, at 22:15, Henry Olyer <henry.olyer@gmail.com> wrote:

> This morning I downloaded and burned the latest CD for 8.1.
>
> Then I took a brand new laptop, an ACER, model ASPIRE-7741Z-5731,  
> and tried
> to install FreeBSD.  (It had a copy of windoz on it.  goodbye and good
> riddance.)
>
> My point is simple, this is about as vanilla as it gets.
>
> And I get the error, shown in the subject line.
>
> Not sure if this is important, but the ad4s1b partition is the SWAP
> partition.
>

I lost data this way...

And I'm quite happy (not for you) to see .I'm not the only one  
experiencing this phenomena.

Peter


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