sysinstall error on 8.2-PRE

2011-01-06 Thread Odhiambo Washington
Dear people, 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).

Re: sysinstall error on 8.2-PRE

2011-01-06 Thread Bruce Cran
On Thu, 6 Jan 2011 17:38:33 +0300 Odhiambo Washington odhia...@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

Re: sysinstall error on 8.2-PRE

2011-01-06 Thread Odhiambo Washington
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 8:02 PM, Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk wrote: On Thu, 6 Jan 2011 17:38:33 +0300 Odhiambo Washington odhia...@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

Re: sysinstall error on 8.2-PRE

2011-01-06 Thread Bruce Cran
On Thu, 6 Jan 2011 20:13:08 +0300 Odhiambo Washington odhia...@gmail.com wrote: So, how do I fix/manoeuvre around that problem? Unfortunately you'd need to use a different tool to partition/label the disk, such as gpart. -- Bruce Cran ___