Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 20:13:08 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com> To: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> Cc: User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: sysinstall error on 8.2-PRE Message-ID: <AANLkTim0M%2BoruU3k=Q_SULzLKs=0fayN5AE5Ldv577XZ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20110106170246.00001f25@unknown> References: <AANLkTi=b14N4Os6S6Hx4PBmUPnSgzDHP_Tm2CWeBMw8R@mail.gmail.com> <20110106170246.00001f25@unknown>
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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? -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Damn!!
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