On Sat, Feb 27, 1999 at 00:28:08 +0900, Yoshihisa Sugimoto wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I experienced the same phenomenon on 7600/200 and 9600/200MP with the 990220
> floppy. The reason why newfs failed is that disklabel did not run correctly,
> I think. As I checked "disklabel sd0", nothing had changed. After I ran disk

Well in my case is was actually the missing pty dev entries that were at fault.
Earlier today I booted from the diskette again and made the devices suggested
by Bill before trying to perform the install. Now the newfs commands completes
for the / and /usr file systems.

- Erik