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Date:      Thu, 15 Jun 2006 07:21:11 -0500
From:      Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com>
To:        John S <techkrit@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 6.1 Installation Prob
Message-ID:  <449150B7.8040009@centtech.com>
In-Reply-To: <986bb0590606142220i64dafc06x25666fcd4cdecda6@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <986bb0590606142220i64dafc06x25666fcd4cdecda6@mail.gmail.com>

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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



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Eric Anderson        Sr. Systems Administrator        Centaur Technology
Anything that works is better than anything that doesn't.
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