From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 15 13:30:02 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7ED5916A479 for ; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 13:30:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwatson@FreeBSD.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [209.31.154.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C20A43D64 for ; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 13:29:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rwatson@FreeBSD.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [209.31.154.41]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4D3146B1D; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 09:29:58 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 14:29:58 +0100 (BST) From: Robert Watson X-X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: Eric Anderson In-Reply-To: <449150B7.8040009@centtech.com> Message-ID: <20060615142846.U2512@fledge.watson.org> References: <986bb0590606142220i64dafc06x25666fcd4cdecda6@mail.gmail.com> <449150B7.8040009@centtech.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.1 Installation Prob X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 13:30:02 -0000 On Thu, 15 Jun 2006, Eric Anderson wrote: >> 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. I consider -CURRENT alpha, although in practice it's the lack of assurance that it will run well, rather than the lack of running well, that's the issue. One of the things that tends not to work very well in -CURRENT is the automated install process, since that's not tested often since most developers do incremental updates rather than fresh installs. :-) Robert N M Watson Computer Laboratory Universty of Cambridge