Problem in install

[doug]

On Sat, 5 Nov 2011, masayoshi wrote:

> --- On Sun, 6/11/11, Zantgo <zantgo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> From: Zantgo <zantgo at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Problem in install
>> To: "freebsd-questions at FreeBSD.org" <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
>> Received: Sunday, 6 November, 2011, 4:06 AM
>> While I am installing FreeBSD
>> 8.2-STABLE, when I finish with disklabel, and then says
>> "Last chance", then to accept I get the following message:
>> 
>> Unable to find device node for / dev/ad4s1b in / dev!
>> The creation of filesystem Will be aborted.
>
> Hi
> Though I?am noob, I searched FreeBSD forum.
> http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=1675
>
I believe this is exactly correct. If this does not do it, recreate the 
partition (step 1) and select the write option rather than quit. Under 
conditions I do not understand the partition table does not get written when 
reformatting a disk when just selecting quit.