Re: FreeBSD 6.1 Installation Prob

From: Eric Anderson <anderson_at_centtech.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 07:21:11 -0500
John S wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>    I am trying to install FreeBSD on my machine which already has Windows
> XP, SUSE Linux 10.1.
> 
> After partitioning and selecting the installation packages; as soon as i 
> hit
> the button to start install; it says "/dev/X" not found and aborted the
> install. I am trying to install from CD. What is the problem?
> 
>   BTW this is the first time I am trying to install FreeeBSD or for that
> matter any flavour of BSD. But I am ok with Linux installtions.

Can you report the actual /dev/* it warns about?  What kind of system is 
it?  Also - you might try a FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE CD instead of -CURRENT, 
as -CURRENT is considered 'beta', and any -RELEASE should be stable.

Eric



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Eric Anderson        Sr. Systems Administrator        Centaur Technology
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