From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Mar 26 19:51:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (oe31.law8.hotmail.com [216.33.240.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0ABDA37BAF2 for ; Sun, 26 Mar 2000 19:51:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from koolmax@hotmail.com) Received: (qmail 83453 invoked by uid 65534); 27 Mar 2000 03:51:23 -0000 Message-ID: <20000327035123.83452.qmail@hotmail.com> X-Originating-IP: [193.230.163.254] From: "Max Kool" To: , "Alfred Breull" References: <3.0.6.32.20000321202021.00992b10@pop3.hannover.sgh-net.de> Subject: Re: Help, please. Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 19:25:10 +0300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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