----- Original Message -----
From: Brennan W Stehling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mounting ad0



> > [ On Thursday, April 6, Brennan W Stehling wrote: ]
> > > I have successfully installed FreeBSD 4.0 STABLE (RELENG_4) onto a
SCSI
> > > drive and would like to get the IDE drive to mount for extra storage
> > > space.  I have been trying to use /stand/sysinstall to label the disk
and
> > > for newfs settings, but when I try to mount something like /dev/ad0s1e
it
> > > complains the the device is not configured.
> > >
> > > I have already ran the following commands.
> > >
> > > cd /dev
> > > sh MAKEDEV all
> > > sh MAKEDEV ad0
> > > sh MAKEDEV ad0s1a
> > >
> > > Then I run the command...
> > >
> > > mount /dev/ad0s1e /export
> > >
> > > And the ouput is...
> > >
> > > mount: Device not Configured
> >

Make sure you have the good version of MAKEDEV in /dev. This happened to me
after upgrading from 3.X to 4.0. I had forgotten to update that file (tho
I'm sure I'd ran mergemaster). The result was that MAKEDEV didn't create the
ad nodes with the proper major/minor.

Regards,

Luc Morin    mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Electrical Engineering Technologist




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