Ok I have been following the guide on netbsd about adding a harddrive. I am following the guide step by step and this is what I run into.
Here is the text as copied directly from the guide.

Now it's time to create the disklabel for the NetBSD partition. The correct steps to do this are:

# disklabel sd0 > tempfile
# vi tempfile
# disklabel -R -r sd0 tempfile

If you try to create the disklabel directly with

# disklabel -e sd0

you get the following message

disklabel: ioctl DIOCWDINFO: No disk label on disk;

Ok I do # disklabel sd0 (wd1 in my case) > tempfile

then # vi tempfile (this is where I start getting confused)
Ok How in the heck am I supposed to do # disklabel -R -r sdo (wd1) tempfile when I am in vi. I exit out of vi and do that it makes the tempfile Read only. The only thing I want to do is add more space to my /usr and /home directories. If any one has an easier way I would love to here from you.


B

ehm
why wd1? western digital?
[just curious, i havent add a new disk at my pc, but i have FreeBSD, and i think da0 means the type of the disk [scsi]..

The tutorial was using a scsi drive as an example. I am on NetBSD and wd0, wd1, etc. is the way my drives are listed. I installed on wd0 when I did the fresh install. I am just haveing mega trouble but am WAY to stubborn to give up. I will keep trying and post when I figure it out.

Thx
B

hi,

short difference it time, no problem[abour 8 hr].

its a scsi drive????
if you format it in ext2 format, you can recognize it [i supose]

when it starts, it writes some messages about hardware that were
detected its over /var/run/dmesg.log [or something like that]

what are u trying to do? mandrake one disk, NetBSD the other?

No. The example that the tutorial is using is a scsi drive. THe tutorial specifies that if you were useing IDE you would put your drive in place of the SD0 (WD1) in my case.

ON the Mandrake bsd question. I am trying to add some space to my / directory. Anyway I think I have it figured out. Stand by for post on conclusion.