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Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 20:29:23 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: misc/6271: Install program can no longer write out partition info
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>Number:         6271
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       Install program can no longer write out partition info
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Apr 10 20:30:00 PDT 1998
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Nicole Harrington
>Organization:
Mediacity World
>Release:        2.2.6-RELEASE
>Environment:
>Description:
The program sysinstall can nolonger write out changes to the hard drive using w
>How-To-Repeat:
/stand/sysinstall
Partition a drive
Then label the drive. Use w (write) command to write out the changes to the drive.
It will complain about a lack of proper swap space and fail to continue.

Witout this, it is now nessesary to do a manual newfs of drives when installing new ones. If you attempt to do this while performing a new install, you will have to restart.

>Fix:

>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:

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