Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:09:55 +0000 From: Geoff Buckingham <geoffb@chuggalug.clues.com> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: creating partions in RC-2 install Message-ID: <20030203160955.GA7350@chuggalug.clues.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20030110120204.jhb@FreeBSD.org> References: <20030110121235.GA3609@chuggalug.clues.com> <XFMail.20030110120204.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 12:02:04PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > > On 10-Jan-2003 Geoff Buckingham wrote: > > > > I suspect this is my problem, not an RC-2 issue but, > > can anybody else create new partitions in sysinstall. > > > > Starting with a 'naked' disk straigh out of its > > sealed anti-static bag I cant create any partitions. > > > > This is on a Alphaserver 800 5/333, booting from CD, > > if nobody else sees this I will try this on a NONAME > > based system at the weekend. > > Yes, I have seen this before. I think I may have a fix for it > though. Need to test it locally on an i386 machine first. > Just A quick line to note this remains borken in 5.0 Release. sysinstall seems unable to disklabel new disks. However if your disk allready has a disklabel all is well. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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