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From: David Nugent <davidn@labs.usn.blaze.net.au>
To: johnson@charming.nrtc.northrop.com
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Subject: Re: problem with make release.8 in /usr/src/release
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On Feb 02, 1997 at 05:16:31PM, johnson@charming.nrtc.northrop.com wrote:
>         disklabel -w -r -B 
>                 -b ${RD}/trees/bin/usr/mdec/fdboot 
>                 -s ${RD}/trees/bin/usr/mdec/bootfd 
>                 /dev/r${VNDEVICE} minimum
>  
> and I get the following error message from the above command:
> 
> ioctl DIOCWLABEL: Operation not supported by device
>
> Any ideas or suggestions as to why I am getting that error message?

Your running kernel needs to have MFS support.


Regards,

David Nugent - Unique Computing Pty Ltd - Melbourne, Australia
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