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Date:      Thu, 6 Jan 2011 17:02:46 +0000
From:      Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>
To:        Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com>
Cc:        User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: sysinstall error on 8.2-PRE
Message-ID:  <20110106170246.00001f25@unknown>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=b14N4Os6S6Hx4PBmUPnSgzDHP_Tm2CWeBMw8R@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <AANLkTi=b14N4Os6S6Hx4PBmUPnSgzDHP_Tm2CWeBMw8R@mail.gmail.com>

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On Thu, 6 Jan 2011 17:38:33 +0300
Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a strange problem. On one system that I am running, I cannot
> use sysinstall to do partition/label for a disk. This problem seems
> peculiar to this OS, somewhere.
> When I launch sysinstall, I get some funny message appear on the
> screen (see http://lix.in/-9b7e16 for an image).
> >From there I choose custom -> partition > Select the disk then enter
> partition editor. The cursor simply refuses to move from there, though
> keyboard is active.

The problem is that geom has been extended with additional types (e.g.
glabel, gsched) that libdisk doesn't know about - so it gets confused.

-- 
Bruce Cran



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