Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 12:16:36 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: marcel@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: sysinstall fails Message-ID: <XFMail.20031112121636.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20031112162413.GA9744@dragon.nuxi.com>
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On 12-Nov-2003 David O'Brien wrote: > On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 11:37:03AM +0200, toha@toha.org.ua wrote: >> I've made fresh (20031111) release from HEAD. >> During installation, sysinstall has troubles creating >> filesystems. >> >> 1). fdisk creates slice with name "ad0p1". and newfs >> can't find /dev/ad0p1*. >> 2). if i create slice, then do "rescan devices" or >> rerun sysinstall, slice has name "ad0s1". but >> newfs says: "cannot retrive operator gid" > > Yes. I ran into this just yesterday. The fdisk slice name problem might be related to Marcel's GPT changes to sysinstall. GPT partitions use /dev/ad0pX while MBR slices use /dev/ad0sX. Both are created in the fdisk part of sysinstall. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/
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