<!ENTITY dhfirstname "<firstname>Wouter</firstname>">
<!ENTITY dhsurname "<surname>Verhelst</surname>">
<!-- Please adjust the date whenever revising the manpage. -->
- <!ENTITY dhdate "<date>september 19, 2001</date>">
+ <!ENTITY dhdate "<date>$Date$</date>">
<!-- SECTION should be 1-8, maybe w/ subsection other parameters are
allowed: see man(7), man(1). -->
<!ENTITY dhsection "<manvolnum>8</manvolnum>">
<refsect1>
<title>DESCRIPTION</title>
- <para>This manual page documents briefly the
- <command>&dhpackage;</command> command.</para>
-
- <para>This manual page was written for the &debian; distribution
- because the original program does not have a manual page.</para>
-
<para>With <command>&dhpackage;</command>, you can connect to a
server running <command>nbd-server</command>, thus using raw
diskspace from that server as a blockdevice on the local
<listitem>
<para>To connect to a server running on port 2000 at host
"server.domain.com", using the client's block special file
- "/dev/nd0":</para>
+ "/dev/nb0":</para>
<para><command>nbd-client server.domain.com 2000
- /dev/nd0</command></para>
+ /dev/nb0</command></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>To connect to a server running on port 2001 at host
"swapserver.domain.com", using the client's block special
- file "/dev/nd1", for swap purposes:</para>
- <para><command>nbd-client swapserver.domain.com 2001 /dev/nd1
+ file "/dev/nb1", for swap purposes:</para>
+ <para><command>nbd-client swapserver.domain.com 2001 /dev/nb1
-swap</command></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>To disconnect the above connection again (after making
sure the block special file is not in use anymore):</para>
- <para><command>nbd-client -d /dev/nd1</command></para>
+ <para><command>nbd-client -d /dev/nb1</command></para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</refsect1>