From owner-freebsd-doc Sun May 19 21:14:10 1996 Return-Path: owner-doc Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id VAA22975 for doc-outgoing; Sun, 19 May 1996 21:14:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tasalpha.tas.BoM.GOV.AU (tasalpha.tas.BoM.GOV.AU [134.178.170.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA22967 for ; Sun, 19 May 1996 21:13:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from noxid.tas.bom.gov.au by tasalpha.tas.BoM.GOV.AU (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA06970; Mon, 20 May 96 14:13:23 EST Message-Id: <31A0B5A0.127E@BOM.Gov.au> Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 14:10:40 -0400 From: Steve Dixon X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (Win95; I) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: freebsd installation X-Url: http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook17.html#19 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-doc@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Gooday, I have installed freebsd onto a newish PC with a PCI motherboard, AMD 586 processor, 16Mb RAM. Everything went just fine, but I'm having a hard time getting themouse to work so that I can install XFree86. It is a serial mouse on com1. dmesg shows up sio0 on IRQ4, and I understand /dev/tty00 corresponds to com1. However, I cannot find either of these devices in /dev. I have tried sh MAKEDEV tty00 and get no error but tty00 does not appear. Perhaps I'm being a bit slow here, but what am I doing wrong? The documentation on the web site doesnt seem to cover this, nor does the freebsd ps manual. Thanks in anticipation, Steve Dixon steved@ice.net.au s.dixon@bom.gov.au