The article on http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/solid-state/x109.html shows how to prepare a flash disk. On FreebBSD 4.6 and 5.0 I found the sequence to be a little different. I.e. One needs the mknod's no longer due to devfs and the commands should be disklabel -Brw ad0s1 auto; disklabel -e ad0s1; newfs /dev/ad0s1a respectively. Fix: Update How-To-Repeat: Follow the sequence
Responsible Changed From-To: freebsd-bugs->doc Assign to doc team
Responsible Changed From-To: doc->blackend I will take this one.
The article reported in this PR now lives in http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/solid-state/ar01s04.html The attached diff updates the device node used in the instructions as the BSD partition scheme on MBR layout is used by default. The bigger issue is that this article is severely out of date, the instructions are oriented around sysinstall which applies to 8.x or prior, it refers to a time where "128 megabytes is considered fairly large - 32 or even 16 megabytes is common" and kern and mfsroot floppies. Ideally, this page should be removed ( the "Building a File System from Scratch" page), the information on other pages of the article should be reviewed for validity.
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URL is now https://docs.freebsd.org/en/articles/solid-state/