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Subject: Re: 8.0-Beta installation problem -- Unable to find
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Kurt Jaeger writes:

>  > > I had the same problem with beta4:
>  [...]
>  
>  My previous tests were with 8.0-beta4-amd64.
>  
>  I now tested with 8.0-beta3-i386, this time installation and
>  partitioning worked.
>	
>  It seems to be a bug with the amd64 code ?

	That might be.
	I have tried this with:

	1) amd64 beta3 and beta4 using the downloaded DVD images
	2) 7.1/7.2 using the installation CD from the set sold by
FreeBSD Mall.

	I also tried on several sets of hardware: SCSI, IDE, SATA.  The
number of disks and number of slices and partitions per disk had no
effect. 
	(1) always failed; (2) succeeded.  (Fruitlessly, since the
specification was for a clean install of 8.0 code and I had to wipe
and try (1) again.)


					Robert Huff