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Date:      Fri, 16 Jun 2006 14:00:11 +0530
From:      "John S" <techkrit@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 6.1 Installation Prob
Message-ID:  <986bb0590606160130j17d9af04iab7cdcb3f81168cc@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <449150B7.8040009@centtech.com>
References:  <986bb0590606142220i64dafc06x25666fcd4cdecda6@mail.gmail.com> <449150B7.8040009@centtech.com>

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Hi,

    Thanks for all your comments everyone.

    The FreeBSD version 6.1 was downloaded (ISO image) from the production
release page (some mirror site).

My PC is a Pentium 4 (915G) , 512MB sdram, 128MB video memory, Maxtor SATA
HDD, OS -  (Windows (C:), Linux (/,swap), BSD(/,swap,tmp,var,usr). The FS
selected was UFS2.

    Also the packages selected were "X packages + all the normal stuff"

    Next comes the screen, where it asks do I want to commit the partitions.
I hit yes and it aborts.

/Arun




On 6/15/06, Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>
>
>
> --
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Eric Anderson        Sr. Systems Administrator        Centaur Technology
> Anything that works is better than anything that doesn't.
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>



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