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Old 02-16-2008, 05:51 AM
Ted Unangst
 
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Default Re: Using a label

On Sun, 2 Nov 2003, F.Fremont wrote:

> New to OpenBSD, I'm trying to use some unused space on my harddrive.
> I added a label with disklabel.
> Used to Linux, I was unable to format the label (does it need to be
> formatted?). I tried to mount it, and I got: mount_ffs <snip>: device busy.
>
> What should I do?


tell us what you did? have to run newfs on a partition before you can
mount it.

> I'm also trying to boot from bsd.rd. I type boot wd0a:/bsd.rd, but that
> doesn't work. The bsd.rd is wd0a. I tried /bsd.rd, but that did not work...


how about just "bsd.rd"?


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