On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 10:50:51PM -0500, Andrew Brown wrote:
> >> >   fdisk: DIOCGINFO: Inappropriate ioctl for device
> >> > 
> >> > do i feed it /dev/rwd0d instead?  /dev/rwd0c?
> >> 
> >> 'wd0' should be fine; fdisk will translate this to /dev/rwd0d which is
> >> correct.
> >The pit I usually fall in:
> >Does a file named "wd0" exist in the current working directory? :-)
> >It it does, fdisk will open that...
> 
> hmm...that may have been the case.  okay...so do i really wanna change
> "our idea of what bios thinks"?  or does that not matter?
>
Instead of wd0 you could use /dev/rwd0d (dev/rwd0c in openbsd case).
Nope i guess you dont want to change the idea of what the bios thinks.
So choose no, then type yes to write.
After this fdisk -B /dev/rwd0d will do the rest.
Bye,

Mipam