FreeBSD 6.1 Installation Prob
Eric Anderson
anderson at centtech.com
Thu Jun 15 12:21:01 UTC 2006
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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