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Date:      03 Oct 2002 14:05:01 -0700
From:      swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen)
To:        Ron Montgomery <rmnt7@earthlink.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Installing FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <kzk7kzb5du.7kz@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <200210031450.38125.rmnt7@earthlink.net>
References:  <200210031450.38125.rmnt7@earthlink.net>

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Ron Montgomery <rmnt7@earthlink.net> writes:

> After selecting the partitions (used auto select) when continuing I got an 
> error "Can't make node /dev/X".
> My system is a Sony PCV-RX560 (new this year).
> Video is NVIDIA TNT2 (32M)/
> 
> Can I get passed this problem or will FreeBSD not work on the Sony?

Just another user here, but that looks like a bug in the MAKEDEV
(/dev/MAKEDEV after installation), if /dev/X actually has an "X".

What are you installing from?  If not from a -RELEASE version, you might
have gotten a snapshot of the software with a bug in it which will
no-doubt go away soon.  Try again later after re-downloading.

If ambitious, you could look for the /usr/src/etc/MAKEDEV file in the
cvs system (www access at www.freebsd.org) and see if it has a stray
"X" in it or if it has been fixed.

Of course, it could be some other problem.

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