setting up vkernel

Matthias Schmidt matthias at dragonflybsd.org
Sat Oct 18 08:07:08 PDT 2008


Hi,

* dark0s Optik wrote:
> I have typed:
> 
> mkdir /home/var.vkernel
> ln -s /home/var.vkernel /var/vkernel
> 
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/vkernel/rootimg.01 bs=1m count=2048
> vnconfig -c -s labels vn0 /var/vkernel/rootimg.01
> disklabel -e vn0s0
> 
> after I close vi with :wq
> 
> and I typed
> 
> newfs /dev/vn0s0a
> newfs: /dev/vn0s0a: in unavailable
> 
> What is the problem?

Hint: Have a look at the EXAMPLES section of vkernel(7).  There is a
step by step vkernel installation howto.

Regards

	Matthias





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