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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!lll-winken.llnl.gov!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!news.kei.com!hookup!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!pa.dec.com!usenet.pa.dec.com!jkh From: jkh@nx.ilo.dec.com (Jordan Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: FreeBSD 1.1.5 Install Bug (can't install to 2nd IDE disk) Date: 01 Jul 1994 10:19:12 GMT Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Galway Ireland Lines: 12 Message-ID: <JKH.94Jul1111912@nx.ilo.dec.com> References: <2uv85d$62u@panix3.panix.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: nx.ilo.dec.com In-reply-to: wpaul@panix.com's message of 30 Jun 1994 15:58:37 -0400 In article <2uv85d$62u@panix3.panix.com> wpaul@panix.com (Bill Paul) writes: Because although you can tell the install script that you'd like to install FreeBSD on wd1 rather than wd0, there are NO DEVICE NODES FOR WD1 IN /dev ON THE FILESYST FLOPPY!!!!!!!! (There aren't any entries for wd1 in the 'filelist' file either, which means the install script will be unable to create /dev/wd1* on the hard disk, which will further bung up the works.) Sigh.. Mea culpa! I'll see what I can do about this. Sorry about that, I just wasn't thinking! Jordan