Re: Installing NetBSD from FreeBSD

["Thomas Mueller" <mueller6725%twc.com@localhost>]

from Cág and Al Zick:

> > On NetBSD /dev/rwd1d represents your whole disk,
> > not /dev/wd1d. On FreeBSD it should be the same.
        
> This is true in NetBSD. In /dev on the FreeBSD system there is no ada1d, or
> rwd1d. In the dmesg it looks like it call the first drive ada0 and says it was
> formerly ad4, and the second drive it calls ada1 formerly ad6. I have tried
> both and it doesn't work. Maybe rad6 would represent the whole disk. You may
> have just put me on the right track. Thanks!
 
> Kind Regards,
> Al

FreeBSD does not use r prefix in device names in /dev, in contrast to NetBSD.

ad6 is the old name for what is now ada1, so it seems from what you have typed; this depends on hardware setup.  I believe this change came in FreeBSD 9.0.

Tom