On Wed, 2 Jul 1997 16:22:05 +0100 (BST) 
 prlw1@cam.ac.uk (Patrick Welche) wrote:

 > > Since vnd now has real disklabel support, partition other than raw
 > > partion can't be opened when initialize if disklabel doesn't exist.
 > > Please try device file of raw partion.
 > 
 > No luck :(
 > 
 > vnconfig -t floppy3 -v -c /dev/rvnd0a ramdisk-12G.fs
 > vnconfig: /dev/rvnd0a: Device not configured

..."raw partition" == "the partition that is whe whole disk".  I.e. "d" on
the i386.

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