Re: Another question: device naming convention

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Marc Espie wrote: > On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 07:43:31AM +0100, Song Li wrote: >> What seems a little counter intuitive to me is: I would see sd0 as a >> shortcut of /dev/sd0 for fdisk, but "fdisk /dev/sd0" does not work. > > It's

Re: Another question: device naming convention

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 6:44 AM, Bret S. Lambert wrote: > On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 05:42:25AM +0100, Song Li wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Here comes a question again: what's the naming convention of the >> device on OpenBSD? >> >> I am still using the newly inst

Re: Package related questions: pkg_info, pkg_add, etc.

Thank you Bret. I can see that now after Aaron's comments and yours. cheers, Song On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 6:34 AM, Bret S. Lambert wrote: > On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 05:27:39AM +0100, Song Li wrote: >> Hi: >> >> I am really a newbie on OpenBSD. So my question might look

Re: Another question: device naming convention

Hi Johan, Thank you for the info. They are quite helpful. It seems like I have to read quite some documents on the same things I have been used to work with on Linux and FreeBSD ... On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 6:04 AM, Johan Beisser wrote: > On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 8:42 PM, Song Li wrote: >

Another question: device naming convention

Hi, Here comes a question again: what's the naming convention of the device on OpenBSD? I am still using the newly installed OpenBSD release 4.6. It did take me some effort to find out the name of device for me to use with fdisk and mount: fdisk /dev/rwd0c and mount /dev/sd0i The first one is

Package related questions: pkg_info, pkg_add, etc.

Hi: I am really a newbie on OpenBSD. So my question might look stupid to you. I am using the current release 4.6 installed from the file install46.iso on ftp://openbsd.ftp.fu-berlin.de/pub/OpenBSD/4.6/i386/ Have anyone encountered any problem using pkg_info, pkg_add, etc.? They do not seem work