Re: Fix It CD, bsdlabel, and /dev?

2009-07-03 Thread doug
On Fri, 3 Jul 2009, Drew Tomlinson wrote: Wojciech Puchar wrote: However /dev/ad6s1a and /dev/ad8s1a do not exist. I do have entries such as /dev/ad6a and/dev/ad8a but gmirror doesn't like those. What must I do the get them to show after I've labeled? If you have /dev/ad[68]a, it indicates

Re: Fix It CD, bsdlabel, and /dev?

2009-07-03 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:04:45 -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > Polytropon wrote: > > On Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:05:13 -0700, Drew Tomlinson > > wrote: > > > >> Next I used bsdlabel > >> and created 500M a: partitions on two of the drives (ad6 & ad8). > >> > > ^ > > There

Re: Fix It CD, bsdlabel, and /dev?

2009-07-03 Thread Drew Tomlinson
Wojciech Puchar wrote: However /dev/ad6s1a and /dev/ad8s1a do not exist. I do have entries such as /dev/ad6a and/dev/ad8a but gmirror doesn't like those. What must I do the get them to show after I've labeled? If you have /dev/ad[68]a, it indicates that you haven't created a slice on those di

Re: Fix It CD, bsdlabel, and /dev?

2009-07-03 Thread Drew Tomlinson
Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:05:13 -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: Next I used bsdlabel and created 500M a: partitions on two of the drives (ad6 & ad8). ^ There is no colon after the partition letter. The colon is used to refer (or change) to the 1st DOS

Re: Fix It CD, bsdlabel, and /dev?

2009-07-03 Thread Wojciech Puchar
However /dev/ad6s1a and /dev/ad8s1a do not exist. I do have entries such as /dev/ad6a and/dev/ad8a but gmirror doesn't like those. What must I do the get them to show after I've labeled? If you have /dev/ad[68]a, it indicates that you haven't created a slice on those disks, instead you created o

Re: Fix It CD, bsdlabel, and /dev?

2009-07-03 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 10:04:06PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > On Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:05:13 -0700, Drew Tomlinson > wrote: > > Next I used bsdlabel > > and created 500M a: partitions on two of the drives (ad6 & ad8). > ^ > There is no colon after the partition letter. The co

Re: Fix It CD, bsdlabel, and /dev?

2009-07-03 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:05:13 -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > Next I used bsdlabel > and created 500M a: partitions on two of the drives (ad6 & ad8). ^ There is no colon after the partition letter. The colon is used to refer (or change) to the 1st DOS diskette drive. :-) >

Fix It CD, bsdlabel, and /dev?

2009-07-03 Thread Drew Tomlinson
Sorry for the poor subject. Thanks for reading. I'm using this page as a guide but am at the console so I'm just using the Fix It CD: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/remote-install/installation.html I'm attempting to install FBSD 7.2 64bit on a fresh machine. The machine has 3 500G