From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 20 23:57:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.miketodd.com (miketodd.com [216.86.202.136]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76B2A37B408 for ; Thu, 20 Jun 2002 23:57:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mt500 (mt500.miketodd.com [192.168.168.2]) by mail.miketodd.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g5L6v7h11692 for ; Thu, 20 Jun 2002 23:57:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from MikeTodd@miketodd.com) Message-ID: <01d701c218f0$e9c0cea0$02a8a8c0@mt500> From: "Mike Todd" To: Subject: Install failure on HP Pavilion 310n Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 23:57:30 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This has happened on both FreeBSD 4.4 and 4.6 installation: Hardware: HP Pavilion 310n, 1.2 Ghz Celeron, 512 M memory, 40 G HD Software: A Partition Magic Boot partition (FAT), HP Restore partition, and a Windows XP partition are on the drive and working correctly. Installing FreeBSD from bootable CD. After booting from the CD, performing the Fdisk operations, selecting a Standard installation (Developer), No boot sector changes, and committing to the install, the following message is displayed and the install fails: "Unable to make device node for /dev/X in /dev! The creation of filesystem will be aborted." No different Fdisk configurations (ie. creating /dev slice, creating /var and /usr and other slices) or install selections (ie. User only - no developer selections) gets past this point. Anyone have an idea of what may be causing this problem? Mike Todd President, Mike Todd Associates www.MikeTodd.com Supporting the Digital Coast President, Internet Society Los Angeles Chapter www.ISOC-LosAngeles.org Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology Law Pepperdine University Law School Voice: 714-846-7257 FAX: 714-846-5716 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message