CVS error while performing checkout

[Nancy]

Hi,

I am new to CVS, and at my work we are using CVS version 1.1 on a
Solaris platform. I was asked to add a new project using CVS, which I
managed to do. However when I try to execute a CVS checkout under my
directory, I get the following error message:

cvs checkout abc.cgi
cvs checkout: cannot find module `abc.cgi' - ignored

I then tried to checkout the parent directory of the file and got the
following error message:

cvs checkout .
cvs checkout: existing repository /cvs/myProject/cgi-bin does not match
/cvs
cvs checkout: ignoring module .

Any help regarding this will be much appreciated.

Thanks,
Nancy