Can't label anything from within sysinstall

[Ulrich Spoerlein]

On Thu, 19.05.2005 at 16:17:33 -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> Use 'bsdlabel auto' from the fixit to stick an initial label on the disk, then 
> reboot and sysinstall will be able to work with your disk.

Ok, for the record: I ran the fixit shell, used dd(1) on the disk, wrote
the bsdlabel and then _rebooted_ to get things working. Just
"restarting" sysinstall isn't good enough, it totally messes up the
serial console and prints "disk full" warnings.

Thanks so far, expect more questions soon :)

Ulrich Spörlein
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Ok, which part of "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn."
didn't you understand?
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