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From: Nathan Whitehorn <nathan.whitehorn@icecube.wisc.edu>
Subject: Re: bin/174471: bsdinstall(8): does not newfs and cannot mount any
 non-standard partitions
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The following reply was made to PR bin/174471; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Nathan Whitehorn <nathan.whitehorn@icecube.wisc.edu>
To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org, oleg@bsdpower.com
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Subject: Re: bin/174471: bsdinstall(8): does not newfs and cannot mount any
 non-standard partitions
Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2012 09:24:24 -0600

 Could you provide some more information? I can't reproduce this at all.
 The error would seem to indicate the partition is not initialized. Did
 you create it by hand and not run newfs? bsdinstall will only newfs on
 partitions it creates to avoid data loss.
 -Nathan