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Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 01:01:35 -0700
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Subject: Re: Ouch... (DEVFS)
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Andrzej Bialecki wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 27 Apr 1998, Julian Elischer wrote:

> > Ok I've looked at it quickly..
> > here's how you do it..
> > 1/ the 'auto' feature does NOT work
> > so use a floppy definition to start with..
> 
> :-( This feature was really nice... especially for creating vnode
> filesystems from scripts, with changing parameters...

it will work again when I get a moment..

> 
> > vnconfig /dev/rvn0 /tmp/imagefile
> > disklabel -w -r /dev/rvn0 floppy3
> > disklabel -r -e /dev/rvn0
> > [edit disklabel to taste.. make 'c' the whole file but make another
> > partition to mount. 'c' is special. it will not show up in /dev.]
> > newfs /dev/vn0a   # not rvn0a, this is a bug. I will fix this.
> 
> I.e. after I edit disklabel, the correct (vn0a) entry will show up in
> /dev, right?

yes but before I got it to work
I needed to add 

pseudo-device vn 7

:-)

(duh) (took me a while to remember that I had removed it)

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