> Not quite. With this set-up, I wanted the home partition on the external > drive.
Yep, freebsd is a bit different. It assumes operator is not a newbee at all. > That is a potential candidate, because allthe installs mentione were on a > laptop - HP nx6120 - which is now almost six years old. Ah, I have nx9020, and freebsd on it. Works like a charm, so far. > This was the problem. It showed up nowhere. If it had, I would have been > able to mount it somehow, but I couldn't because as far as the O.S. was > concerned, it didn't exist. With Debian, no problem! I'm writing to it now. > But no chance with BSD. You have to tell it where the partition is in fstab. I would try with this: /dev/da0 /home ufs rw,auto 0 0 Be carefull not to have more usb devices, since than the proper device name could be different. What is wrong with /home on hdd? You might have it on hdd and one soft link to nonadmin user on usb drive. Like, root on hdd and the directory for yourself as a simlink to usb drive, which has to be mounted during boot process (fstab). Simply, make new user, then remove his directory, make simlink, connect usb drive, par- tition it and make file system, then add a line to fstab and do reboot. Correct device should be /usr/home/name. I'n not aware if debian could read and write to ffs2. Best regards Zoran -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110424143016.GA1016@faust