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Me:

> About two weeks ago we had a discussion about my inability to
> complete an install because the partition/label part of sysinstall
> was getting confused.

	I found a work-around:

	when down with the label phase, instead of hotting 'q', hit 'w'
(which isn't listed as an option).  This will create the slices and
partitions, and further steps will work fine.


				Robert Huff