From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Feb 3 8:37: 5 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DD4A37B401 for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 08:37:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail15.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.215]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB36C43FA3 for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 08:37:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 27542 invoked from network); 3 Feb 2003 16:37:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) by mail15.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 3 Feb 2003 16:37:06 -0000 Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h13Gb1UT085249; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 11:37:01 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.2 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20030203160955.GA7350@chuggalug.clues.com> Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2003 11:37:09 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: Geoff Buckingham Subject: Re: creating partions in RC-2 install Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 03-Feb-2003 Geoff Buckingham wrote: > Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 12:02:04PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: >> >> On 10-Jan-2003 Geoff Buckingham wrote: >> > >> > I suspect this is my problem, not an RC-2 issue but, >> > can anybody else create new partitions in sysinstall. >> > >> > Starting with a 'naked' disk straigh out of its >> > sealed anti-static bag I cant create any partitions. >> > >> > This is on a Alphaserver 800 5/333, booting from CD, >> > if nobody else sees this I will try this on a NONAME >> > based system at the weekend. >> >> Yes, I have seen this before. I think I may have a fix for it >> though. Need to test it locally on an i386 machine first. >> > Just A quick line to note this remains borken in 5.0 Release. > > sysinstall seems unable to disklabel new disks. However if your disk > allready has a disklabel all is well. Ok, then I haven't fixed it. I will try to play with this some when I get some time. Sorry. :( This is probably the problem on the ES40. If the guy with the ES40 could try to take the first disk out and label it in another already-installed machine that might work. Either that or use the fixit option and run disklabel manually maybe? -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message