On Sun, Apr 04, 1999 at 11:12:32PM +1000, Simon Burge wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> I've not used sysinst since it grew status windows for commands to track
> problems.  With a 1.4 ALPHA build on a pmax, I get the following:
> 
>      Status: Failed 
>     Command: /sbin/newfs /dev/rrz0a
>      Press any key to continue
>  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> |                                                                              |
> |  [[ more blank lines ]]                                                      |
>  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> and nothing else.  Following that I get an error newfs'ing /dev/rrz0d,

Is this what I observed on macppc several weeks ago: sysinst was changed
to require pty's in /dev as they are used to capture the command output ?

If the newfs command works directly from the shell after exiting the installer,
try to make a few pty's in /dev and then retry the installer.

- Erik