Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 00:56:22 -0500 From: Mark Shirley <mark@entropynet.com> To: Max Kool <koolmax@hotmail.com>, freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help, please. Message-ID: <19990327005622.A12729@cyberfrg.access.one.net> In-Reply-To: <20000327035123.83452.qmail@hotmail.com>; from koolmax@hotmail.com on Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 07:25:10PM %2B0300 References: <3.0.6.32.20000321202021.00992b10@pop3.hannover.sgh-net.de> <20000327035123.83452.qmail@hotmail.com>
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i'm sure he ment 1.1 gig and non 1.1 meg On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 07:25:10PM +0300, Max Kool wrote: > > I own an IBM Thinkpad Aptiva with a 400 P2 and 64 MB ram. > > There is 1.1 MB free space on which I'd like to install > > FreeBSD 3.4, version Jan 2000. > > > > I tried to install from CD. Everything went fine (suggested kernel), > > incl. the (A) auto selection of directory sizes when, after the last > > 'ok', I received the following error message: > > > > 1. unable to make device node for /dev/x in /dev! > > 2. couldn't make filesytem properly. aborted. > > > > I understand that I can't install FreeBSD on my computer. > > But, being a newbie, I don't undertsand the meaning of the message. > > > > Could someone explain, please ? > > Alf > > You cannot install FreeBSD on 1 MB of HD space!!! > > > > Max > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > -- "Minister, I have met Cartagia three times before, twice when he was an infant. He drooled most of the time. I wonder if he has continued the habit. And again when he was fifteen trying to peek up the dress of some young women. I promise you, I will be just as impressed by him now as I was then." -- Londo, "The Hour of the Wolf" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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