Install
John Murphy
freebsd001 at freeode.co.uk
Thu Feb 15 02:56:58 GMT 2007
"Fizzwizz - Admin" <admin at fizzwizz.net> wrote:
>I'm attempting to install a copy of FreeBSD to 10GB of unallocated sppace on my hard drive which also contains Windows XP
>
>During the installation process I get the message "unable to find device node in /dev/X" when creating the partitions (Automatically)
>
>The installation then aborts.
>
>What am I doing wrong?
I don't know if XP uses extended partitions, but if you have any of those
before the unallocated space then that could be causing the problem.
Is the rest of the HDD a single partition?
Maybe worth making a new primary FAT32 partition in the unallocated space
and try installing FreeBSD there.
--
John.
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