Tom T. Thai <tomthai@future.net>,wrote on Nov 02, 1998 at 00:55 -0600: 
> Why is that?  Is there away for the system to remove the disklabel and
> automatically rewrite it?  I could edit the label and add up the cylinders
> from each sdX, but this just puzzles me.
> 

The problem is that you need an offset for the partitions you ccd.
Look at ccd(4), it's described in the beginning of the manpage.

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mvh Jens