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Subject: bin/4334: sysinstall will not create disk slices
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>Number:         4334
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       sysinstall will not create disk slices
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Aug 18 16:00:01 PDT 1997
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Alex
>Organization:
>Release:        Current
>Environment:
FreeBSD zippy.dyn.ml.org 3.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT #0: Mon Aug 18 14:40:40 PDT 1997     root@zippy.dyn.ml.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/ZIPPY  i386

/dev/sd0a on / (local)
procfs on /proc (local)
kernfs on /kern (local)
fdesc on /dev (union)
/dev/sd1s1 on /mnt/dos0/ (local)

>Description:
Sysinstall will fail to create new slices within a already created partition.
>How-To-Repeat:
On a system with scsi (not checked with IDE) disks, 
if one goes into sysinstall, then selects Configure, Partition, sdx, writes the changes,
then goes into the label section, and creates a disk slice, then attempts to write it out, 
sysinstall will return an error similar to "newfs: /blah invalid argument".  Following
attempts to write anything out will have sysinstall tell you that you've already written
everything to disk.
>Fix:
Boot up with a 2.2-Release disk, and use sysinstall to preform your disk managment from there.
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: