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From: Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 20:13:08 +0300
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On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 8:02 PM, Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> wrote:

> 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.
>
>
So, how do I fix/manoeuvre around that problem?



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