sysinstall fails

[Marcel Moolenaar]

On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 12:16:36PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
> 
> On 12-Nov-2003 David O'Brien wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 11:37:03AM +0200, toha at toha.org.ua wrote:
> >>      I've made fresh (20031111) release from HEAD.
> >>      During installation, sysinstall has troubles creating
> >>      filesystems.
> >> 
> >>      1). fdisk creates slice with name "ad0p1". and newfs
> >>              can't find /dev/ad0p1*.
> >>      2). if i create slice, then do "rescan devices" or
> >>              rerun sysinstall, slice has name "ad0s1". but
> >>              newfs says: "cannot retrive operator gid"
> > 
> > Yes.  I ran into this just yesterday.
> 
> The fdisk slice name problem might be related to Marcel's GPT
> changes to sysinstall.  GPT partitions use /dev/ad0pX while
> MBR slices use /dev/ad0sX.  Both are created in the fdisk
> part of sysinstall.

Yup, my bad. I'll make the code ia64 specific.

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