From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 16 08:36:38 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 4DA9C16A474 for ; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 08:36:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from techkrit@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0102.google.com (nz-out-0102.google.com [64.233.162.195]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD3B343D49 for ; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 08:36:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from techkrit@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id 13so587981nzn for ; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 01:36:37 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=I7Ie371oLmGef0JrB3ehA73mk9am5JCt8i41Ugp4Y++wQROaRfRNPJ4LZUK9tG0FO19WVOZH1Y4sYsv2ALt/9fMD9fKIbL1HtLHZPdkh9AEBknxwZD3yyrDpc8u767Eut8GZUuxjGGDnPITjN9AD3fmVYxHhtvC0p71FMLVXb/A= Received: by 10.65.234.13 with SMTP id l13mr1267530qbr; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 01:30:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.65.84.17 with HTTP; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 01:30:11 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <986bb0590606160130j17d9af04iab7cdcb3f81168cc@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 14:00:11 +0530 From: "John S" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <449150B7.8040009@centtech.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <986bb0590606142220i64dafc06x25666fcd4cdecda6@mail.gmail.com> <449150B7.8040009@centtech.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.1 Installation Prob X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 08:36:38 -0000 Hi, Thanks for all your comments everyone. The FreeBSD version 6.1 was downloaded (ISO image) from the production release page (some mirror site). My PC is a Pentium 4 (915G) , 512MB sdram, 128MB video memory, Maxtor SATA HDD, OS - (Windows (C:), Linux (/,swap), BSD(/,swap,tmp,var,usr). The FS selected was UFS2. Also the packages selected were "X packages + all the normal stuff" Next comes the screen, where it asks do I want to commit the partitions. I hit yes and it aborts. /Arun On 6/15/06, Eric Anderson wrote: > > John S wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am trying to install FreeBSD on my machine which already has > Windows > > XP, SUSE Linux 10.1. > > > > After partitioning and selecting the installation packages; as soon as i > > hit > > the button to start install; it says "/dev/X" not found and aborted the > > install. I am trying to install from CD. What is the problem? > > > > BTW this is the first time I am trying to install FreeeBSD or for that > > matter any flavour of BSD. But I am ok with Linux installtions. > > Can you report the actual /dev/* it warns about? What kind of system is > it? Also - you might try a FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE CD instead of -CURRENT, > as -CURRENT is considered 'beta', and any -RELEASE should be stable. > > Eric > > > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology > Anything that works is better than anything that doesn't. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >