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Michael Dexter wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Our team is porting a project from OpenBSD to NetBSD and TFM, (having
> Read it) is not getting me through a hang up with the formatting of
> disk images under NetBSD 3.0 Release, x86 P4.
>
> I follow these steps under OpenBSD to create and mount a 500MB disk
> image:
>
> sudo dd if=3D/dev/zero of=3D/home/sysjail00.img bs=3D1024 count=3D50000=
0
> sudo vnconfig -c /dev/vnd0c /home/sysjail00.img
> sudo newfs /dev/vnd0c
> sudo fsck -y /dev/vnd0c
> sudo mkdir /mnt/sysjail00/
> sudo mount_ffs /dev/vnd0c /mnt/sysjail00/
>
> Under NetBSD I get as far as:
>
> sudo dd if=3D/dev/zero of=3D/home/sysjail00.img bs=3D1024 count=3D50000=
0
> sudo vnconfig vnd0 /home/sysjail00.img
> ... and
> sudo newfs vnd0 fails. I have tried vnd0c and I see evidence on the
> net (in reference to memory, CD and CF images) that disklabel and
> perhaps fdisk may be required. I tried several disklabel variations
> but perhaps a manual disklabel edit is required? If so, what entries
> are required?
>
> Appreciated,
>
> Michael.

On the i386 (and amd64) ports of NetBSD, the "entire disk" raw partition
is "d", so if you use vnd0d above, it should all work.

+j



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