From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 4 3:27:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from iitkgp.iitkgp.ernet.in (iitkgp.iitkgp.ernet.in [203.197.98.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BAF337B41A for ; Tue, 4 Dec 2001 03:27:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from cse.iitkgp.ernet.in (IDENT:root@cse.iitkgp.ernet.in [144.16.192.57]) by iitkgp.iitkgp.ernet.in (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id GAA27529 for ; Tue, 4 Dec 2001 06:55:21 -0500 (GMT) Received: from cse.iitkgp.ernet.in (decsrv2 [10.5.18.34]) by cse.iitkgp.ernet.in (8.11.0/8.8.7) with ESMTP id fB4BYL013307 for ; Tue, 4 Dec 2001 17:04:21 +0530 Message-ID: <3C0D461B.45D59190@cse.iitkgp.ernet.in> Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2001 16:54:36 -0500 From: Ritesh Maheshwari X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; OSF1 V4.0 alpha) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: /dev/X installation problem Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------F6E2C16FCE9E5C952AFB99AD" 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 --------------F6E2C16FCE9E5C952AFB99AD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit hi friends, I am new to FreeBSD. Has anyone heard about the "/dev/X" problem. During the installation of FreeBSD 4.4 on my computer (P III, win98 & RHlinux7.2 installed), i encountered the error message - could not write /dev/x, could not create partition... something like that. My friend got this problem only when his FreeBSD partition didnt completely lie within 1024 cylinders, but thats not the problem with me. My partition completely lies within 1024 cylinders. help pls. -ritesh maheshwari (india) --------------F6E2C16FCE9E5C952AFB99AD Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 
hi friends,
I am new to FreeBSD. Has anyone heard about the "/dev/X" problem.
During the installation of FreeBSD 4.4 on my computer (P III,
win98 & RHlinux7.2 installed), i encountered the error message -
could not write /dev/x, could not create partition... something
like that. My friend got this problem only when his FreeBSD partition
didnt completely lie within 1024 cylinders, but thats not the problem
with me. My partition completely lies within 1024 cylinders. help pls.
-ritesh maheshwari (india)
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