Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 00:30:41 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: Problems installing 2.1.0-RELEASE Message-ID: <199603062330.AAA13225@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960306152815.19981A-100000@ki.net> from "Marc G. Fournier" at Mar 6, 96 03:37:19 pm
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As Marc G. Fournier wrote: > I can use fdisk to create the FreeBSD slice, and then label the > partitions I want, but when it goes to format it, it states that > > /dev/rsd0a doesn't exist Hmm, if i take this sentence, it would mean that the _device node_ did magically disappear? > When the label editor created the partitions, it created them as > > sd0s1a > > So, what I'm assuming, is that one of the procedures is creating > /dev/[r]sd0s1a, while the other is looking for /dev/rsd0a They are identical, the latter notation is the ``compatibility slice'', as the boot code will see it. Yours confusingly, -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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