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From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Freebsd 2.0 install not recognizing Nec 4xi as install device
Date: 27 Jan 1995 02:30:24 -0000
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James F Brown (brownj@world.std.com) wrote:
: mjkaizen@aol.com (Mjkaizen) writes:

: >I get the error msg:  "unable to mount /dev/cd0a on /mnt",
: >immediately after chosing  the "SCSI CDROM drive attached to supported
: >SCSI controller" as the input device durning the instllation process. 

: >When I toggled to the boot/install error messages the last 2 msgs that
: >appear are : "mount_cd9660: device not configured"
: >        "ERROR <Unable to mount /dev/cd0a on /mnt>"

: >I think the problem may be hardware incompatibility but I'm not sure. 
[stuff deleted]

The problem isn't with your hardware... if the drive is SCSI (which it is),
it is dealt with by the scsi drivers.  I would think that either /dev/cd0a
doesn't exist, /dev/cd0a has bad major/minor numbers or the kernel isn't
configured with device cd0.

Try getting a shell and typing

    cd /dev
    sh ./MAKEDEV cd0


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Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>

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