fresh squeeze install fails to partition

[Neal Hogan <nealhogan@gmail.com>]

Hi list,

My goal was to install the debian GNU/bsd system, but things seemed to
be messed up. I've tried the mini.iso and full net-iso for both the
gnu/bsd and gnu/linux system (i386) and no matter what I try it fails
to partition my drive.

  eg.
     "[!!] Partition disks
      Failed to create a file system
      The ufs file system creation in partition #6 of ATA1 (ad0) failed"

No matter what option I try, the default, all-in-one partition, the
seperation /home partition, etc., it doesn't work.

Just a week or so ago, I had 5.0 running just fine. No hardware has
changed . . . software?

Thanks for your time,
-Neal