On Wed, Dec 1, 2021 at 4:56 AM Nick Holland <n...@holland-consulting.net> wrote: > And yeah, he really wants you to UNDERSTAND what you are doing. > Total jerk, I know.
I got confused by the MAKEDEV, thinking I have to create a required disk. In fact, using one of the disks in hw.disknames worked as expected. > The obvious errors you have are you are trying to use devices you don't > actually have on your machine, even though you have a dev file by a > suggestive name. My machine here has /dev entries for sd0 to sd9, and > wd0 to wd3, and there are no wd devices and only three sd devices. Clear, I thought that /dev/ (in install kernel) was populated by effective hardware, but reading your explaination is now clearer to me what is happening. > > I'm a little suspicious of that sd0 in your /dev directory -- was it > there all along, or did it just pop up when you dd'd to /dev/rsd0c and It was already there, and I'm installing amd64 iso image on a virtual machine with only one IDE controller (thus wd). I've also created a virtual machine without any IDE/SATA disk, and entering the shell there's a /dev/rsd0c and all other partitions. Thanks, Luca
