why can't FBSD create /dev/ad0s2e?

Gary Kline kline at tao.thought.org
Fri May 27 17:18:24 PDT 2005


	On my one box that has a 5G windows installation, I had 
	(after the w2k)  my RH-8.0.  Last night I deleted the 
	Linux stuff leaving only "NTFS".  I then tryed to install'
	FreeBSD on the remaining ~~34G, but when I went to the
	menu to create the slices, a screen showed the err message
	"Can't create /dev/ad0s2e [or whatever]."

	Am I doing something dense?  Upon quitting F1 pointed to "??"
	which I let bring up windows.  Only a week ago I booted RH 
	without any problem so it doesn't seem likely that the 
	roughly 33-34GB are suddenly trashed.  I did try to use 
	*all* of the remaining disk, then use the FBSD bootloader,
	then chose "A" for the automatic default.  Got error message;
	then started over and tried using 30G, then 25G, then 15 and
	10GB.  

	Any suggestions on what I can try next?

	gary



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