I5 550 running livecd 2005.0 I follow the handbook, to find errors. I can do my fdisk through /dev/sda,and create my slices like the handbook says. But when I try do create filesystems there, I get a 'Could not stat /dev/sda2 - No such file or directory', which is pretty obvious since the symlinks for the slices doesn't exist there. But they do exist in /dev/discs/disc[0-9]/part[0-9] like they are suppose to. Maybe this should be pointed out more specific in the handbook? I haven't tested the 2005.1 liveCD to see if it happens there too.
After an IPL, vary on/off or reboot, the symlinks are created.
We will use our life for something more important :-)
Closing