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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
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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. 

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