From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 25 21:36:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA04383 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 25 Dec 1998 21:36:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fingers.shocking.com (fingers.shocking.com [204.119.204.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA04365 for ; Fri, 25 Dec 1998 21:36:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doemill@fingers.shocking.com) Received: (from doemill@localhost) by fingers.shocking.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) id VAA22393 for questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 25 Dec 1998 21:36:16 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 21:36:16 -0800 (PST) From: Ferguson Message-Id: <199812260536.VAA22393@fingers.shocking.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: unable to make device node for /dev/X in /dev! Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hello I am attempting a freeBSD install via ftp and after i partition my drived properly and get to te stagw were i am going to download it, i get this: ok, i downloaded the boot.flp and dd'ed it on a 1.44MB floppy and booted, i was able to partition everything, i only got 125MB free for it all. Ok so i made a 50MB / partition, a 25MB /var, and a 10MB swap, and a 20MB /usr , giver or take a few MB on those i dont have time to count. ok, so I partition that out fine, and i tell it to do the minimal install, and ol, it asks me if i really want to preocedd and to backup all my data before doing the install blah blah blah, well i click " yes " then i get a popup message that at "ALT+F1" that says message unable to make device node for /dev/X in /dev! The creatioon of filesystems will be aborted. --=-==-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ok, now i have debugging turned on, so i switch to "ALT+F2" and i see this: scanning disk wd0 for root filesystems found rootdev at X! found usrdev at X! found vardev at X! scanning disk wd0 for swap partitions found swapdev at X! MakeDev: unknown major/minor for devtype - ------------------------------------------ and then it ends there, ok so now i switch back tro ALT+F1 and click ok to that one error, and then it says: message couldnt make filesystems properly. Aborting =-=-=-==-=--=-=-==-=--==-=-=-=--==-=-=-=-=-=- then "ok" to that error then i get another message: message the commit operation completed with errors. not updating /etc files. -=-=-=-=-= thank you for even reading this far if you have! I am on a hewlett packard pavilion Celeron 266 with a 6gig hard drive and 48MB of ram. I have win95 and linux on other partitions also.. thanks Doug doemill@shocking.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message