Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 10:33:20 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: stephenj <stephenj@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem With NEWFS When Installing FreeBSD; Message-ID: <20010327103320.B19330@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <OE4yLD0WqS9cZRPD5CL000046d6@hotmail.com>; from stephenj@hotmail.com on Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 05:19:32PM %2B0100 References: <OE4yLD0WqS9cZRPD5CL000046d6@hotmail.com>
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On Monday, 26 March 2001 at 17:19:32 +0100, stephenj wrote: > Hello, > > I'm a newbie to FreeBsd and am trying my best to install it, I seem to get a > problem back from NEWFS, it claims that my 'device is not configured'. I am > installing to a empty harddisk, which happens to be a 'slave' drive in my > system. I have set the option for NEWFS to what I think is correct for my > harddrive (as well as trying the default)... I also used all the automatic > options when slicing and creating partitions for the disk. > > 'newfs /dev/adlsla: Device Not Configured' - the original error i get back > on standard error > > The problems results in an error that says 'unable to swap /dev/adb1s1b' and > 'unable to make new root filesystem on /dev/ad1sla' on the install > screen. This looks like you've given the wrong names, either here or in your setup. What exactly did you enter? Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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