From owner-freebsd-bugs Sat Nov 4 01:51:01 1995 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id BAA25756 for bugs-outgoing; Sat, 4 Nov 1995 01:51:01 -0800 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id BAA25725 for ; Sat, 4 Nov 1995 01:50:56 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id KAA18538; Sat, 4 Nov 1995 10:50:46 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA00194; Sat, 4 Nov 1995 10:50:46 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id JAA06819; Sat, 4 Nov 1995 09:35:24 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199511040835.JAA06819@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Install bug in current SNAP release To: watcher@winc.com (Bill DeVos) Date: Sat, 4 Nov 1995 09:35:24 +0100 (MET) Cc: bugs@FreeBSD.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from "Bill DeVos" at Nov 3, 95 12:43:08 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 657 Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Bill DeVos wrote: > > I've just tried repeatedly to install the current SNAP release onto my > 4th hard drive, it partitions it ok, but the "Label" option on the menu > is unable to complete. I press W and it says that newfs returned a > value of 1. > Is there a way for me to get around this? Is there a patch? Any > suggestions would be much appreciated. Don't press W. Q)uit out of the label and partition editors, and proceed. C)ommiting will actually write your disk label. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)