From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 3 14: 2:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3779D37B401 for ; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 14:02:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (rwcrmhc53.attbi.com [204.127.198.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C988843E4A for ; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 14:02:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([12.242.158.67]) by rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20021003210206.MVG18767.rwcrmhc53.attbi.com@localhost.localdomain>; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 21:02:06 +0000 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g93L57oS004618; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 14:05:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g93L51Q6004615; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 14:05:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: jojo set sender to swear@attbi.com using -f To: Ron Montgomery Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD References: <200210031450.38125.rmnt7@earthlink.net> From: swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 03 Oct 2002 14:05:01 -0700 In-Reply-To: <200210031450.38125.rmnt7@earthlink.net> Message-ID: Lines: 21 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 Ron Montgomery writes: > After selecting the partitions (used auto select) when continuing I got an > error "Can't make node /dev/X". > My system is a Sony PCV-RX560 (new this year). > Video is NVIDIA TNT2 (32M)/ > > Can I get passed this problem or will FreeBSD not work on the Sony? Just another user here, but that looks like a bug in the MAKEDEV (/dev/MAKEDEV after installation), if /dev/X actually has an "X". What are you installing from? If not from a -RELEASE version, you might have gotten a snapshot of the software with a bug in it which will no-doubt go away soon. Try again later after re-downloading. If ambitious, you could look for the /usr/src/etc/MAKEDEV file in the cvs system (www access at www.freebsd.org) and see if it has a stray "X" in it or if it has been fixed. Of course, it could be some other problem. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message