ad6s1
I posted some days before I intend to install FreeBSD on the first partition of a master disk on the secondary channel. I was lucky nobody replied The installation fails just when the partitions are to be written. I have noticed that the installer detects one disk as ad4 (master, primary channel), and the other as ad6. Now, counting my IDE drives, including HDs, I have only 5 of them. So, why the installer wants to create a root partition where there is nothing (ad6s1)? I suppose the floppy drive doesn't count as a IDE drive. The error I get is: couldn't create a new root filesystem. Could you help? Teilhard Knight The Extraterrestrial Change privacy for softhome if you want to intrude my inbox ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ad6s1
FBSD sees each partition on each hard drive as an separate hard drive, just like windows does. I see. Thanks for the info. I now have to find out why the installer cannot write the root filesystem. Teilhard Knight The Extraterrestrial Change privacy for softhome if you want to intrude my inbox ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ad6s1
FBSD sees each partition on each hard drive as an separate hard drive, just like windows does. I see. Thanks for the info. I now have to find out why the installer cannot write the root filesystem. On second thoughts, is it not that the s1 after ad6, is counting the primary partitions on ATA drives? So, ad6s1 means: the first primary partition of ATA drive 6 Am I wrong? Teilhard Knight The Extraterrestrial Change privacy for softhome if you want to intrude my inbox ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ad6s1
You should be installing 4.9, all the 5.x series is from the development branch of the code tree, it's where all the new and untested code is first tested out. 5.2 has many show stopper bugs dealing with the install process to any thing other than the first partition on the primary IDE master hard drive. If you don't know how to debug system kernel code, 5.2 is not for you. Yes, right, you confirm my doubts about installing 5.2. I knew what you say about 5.0 when I decided to install 4.7 in another machine. But there is so much promotion of 5.2 in the FreeBSD page, that I entertained the idea that it was OK to install it now. Thanks for taking the time to respond. Teilhard. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
