From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 28 3:20:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web12808.mail.yahoo.com (web12808.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.174.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3600637B403 for ; Tue, 28 Aug 2001 03:20:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from prohit99@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20010828102011.27363.qmail@web12808.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [202.142.70.159] by web12808.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 28 Aug 2001 03:20:11 PDT Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 03:20:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Rohit Panda Subject: help me !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="0-1284662575-998994011=:25143" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --0-1284662575-998994011=:25143 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii hi, can anybody please help me out.first of all i wanted to install via FTP but now i have changed my mind to install from a msdos partition.so i have made a "freebsd" directory and downloaded /bin,/compat*,/dict,/floppies,/manpages,/ports,/proflibs.will this be enough (though i know many from here r irelevent,but i downloaded because they were small downloads).and when i was tring to install from a FTP though a HTTP proxy ,after i did the partition and give ok to start the installation it says "cannot create /dev/x on /dev!" and aborting installation etc etc.can u guess what the problem is .if so please let me know as soon as possible. thanx rohit --------------------------------- Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $0.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger. --0-1284662575-998994011=:25143 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii

hi,

can anybody please help me out.first of all i wanted to install via FTP but now i have changed my mind to install from a msdos partition.so i have made a "freebsd" directory and downloaded /bin,/compat*,/dict,/floppies,/manpages,/ports,/proflibs.will this be enough (though i know many from here r irelevent,but i downloaded because they were small downloads).and when i was tring to install from a FTP though a HTTP proxy ,after i did the partition and give ok to start the installation it says "cannot create /dev/x on /dev!" and aborting installation etc etc.can u guess what the problem is .if so please let me know as soon as possible.

thanx

rohit


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