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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Cannot install: "Device not configured" Date: 30 Dec 1995 00:22:28 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 21 Message-ID: <4c20o4$b4r@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <30E425DC.41C6@cs.uml.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 Brian 'Doc' O'Neill <oneill@cs.uml.edu> writes: > First when adding the swap > partition, it claimed "Device not configured". Then, when trying to > create the root partition, it failed with a return code of "1"...can > anybody clue me in on this? Which device is not configured? What are the boot messages? > On the side, we got a 3COM PCI Ethernet marked "3C590"...is this > compatible with the 3C509? It ain't. It's the ``Vortex'' device, covered by the `vx' driver in FreeBSD-current. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)