Re: Installing NetBSD from FreeBSD

[Al Zick <al%familysafeinternet.com@localhost>]

Hi,

On Feb 14, 2017, at 3:05 AM, Thomas Mueller wrote:

> 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.

I found that out.

> 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.

I am trying it with a bs of 64k. I will see what happens.

Still, I was able to convert a few more servers to NetBSD remotely,  
just not the ones running FreeBSD.

Kind Regards,
Al