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From: Christoff Snijders <hjcs@portal.ca>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: SOLVED New Hard Drive Installation
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 13:22:04 +0000
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Christoff Snijders wrote:

<snip>

> I can configure the drive setup
> parameters, but any time I try to choose Write or
> Commit, I get the error "sysinstall: read: Invalid
> argument" and I'm back at #.
> 

<snip>



For those who are interested, I solved the problem.  It seems that the
FreeBSD partition editor wants to be the first to write to a new drive; 
not DOS's FDISK or Windows NT.  When I let FreeBSD do its thing,
everything worked perfectly.

Thanks to those who pondered . . .

Ch.

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Christoff Snijders
hjcs@portal.ca