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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!ulowell.uml.edu!usenet From: Brian O'Neill <oneill@cs.uml.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Cannot install: "Device not configured" Date: Sat, 30 Dec 1995 19:27:52 -0500 Organization: UMass Lowell Lines: 33 Message-ID: <30E5D908.119D@cs.uml.edu> References: <30E425DC.41C6@cs.uml.edu> <4c20o4$b4r@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: nyssa.cs.uml.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b3 (Win95; I) J Wunsch wrote: > > 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? > Well, it wasn't a boot problem, it was an install problem. However, Jordan helped, telling me not to write out the configuration, which I was doing. > > 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. > Yup, I'm going to see what kind of luck I have bringing in that driver... :^) -- ====================================================================== Brian O'Neill - Director of Computing, Computer Science University of Massachusetts at Lowell oneill@cs.uml.edu (508) 934-3645 "Nothing's the same anymore." - Sinclair, Babylon 5, _Chrysalis_ <*>