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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
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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

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