From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 6 13:45:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA26484 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 13:45:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA26309 for ; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 13:44:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA29394; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 13:44:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 13:44:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: steve cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installation problems In-Reply-To: <000701bdc011$8567eec0$959175c2@elric> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 5 Aug 1998, steve wrote: > I am trying to install BSD v 2.2.2 from a CD. You're about 3 versions old, BTW... > I've created a bootable floppy and configured the Kernel. > and gone through all the other parts of the installation, > but as soon as I select ok to install i get the following error message > > Unable to make device node for /dev/X in dev! > > The thing I have managed to install freeBSD previously before my hard > drive corrupted this has since been replaced with one, of exactly the > same model and type and I never got this error message before Did you wipe out the old partition completely? Remnants of the old partition could be confusing sysinstall. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message