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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!sunic!isgate!veda.is!adam From: adam@veda.is (Adam David) Subject: Re: FreeBSD1.0 : Failing to write disk label References: <Cn8ArI.C41@info.bris.ac.uk> Organization: Veda Systems, Iceland Date: Sat, 26 Mar 1994 21:48:12 GMT Message-ID: <CnAKKv.DJ2@veda.is> Lines: 13 ph2037@caesar.bris.ac.uk (Jezza J Green) writes: >I am trying to install FreeBSD 1.0 on my 386DX with a ST506 Drive. >There are already a DOS and Double Spaced Drive partitions. >The error I get is that the disklabel is not written, and consequently the >disk label cannot be found. You must probably specify the full device name for the raw 'a' partition, for instance /dev/rwd0a -- adam@veda.is