Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2003 11:37:09 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Geoff Buckingham <geoffb@chuggalug.clues.com> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: creating partions in RC-2 install Message-ID: <XFMail.20030203113709.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20030203160955.GA7350@chuggalug.clues.com>
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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 <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< 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
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