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31.Dd December 24, 1999
32.Dt NEWDISK 8 x68k
33.Os
34.Sh NAME
35.Nm newdisk
36.Nd "Prepare a new disk to be usable for X680x0"
37.Sh SYNOPSIS
38.Nm
39.Op Fl vnfcp
40.Op Fl m Ar mboot
41.Ar raw_device
42.Sh DESCRIPTION
43.Nm
44prepares a new hard disk to be bootable from by X680x0.  It should NOT be used
45for floppy disks.
46.Pp
47It creates a disk mark for IOCS to determine the disk geometry,
48writes the primary boot program (mboot), and creates empty partition table.
49The option are as follows:
50.Bl -tag -width flag
51.It Fl v
52Verbose mode.
53.It Fl n
54Dryrun mode.  Nothing is written to the disk.
55.It Fl f
56Force.  Usually, when
57.Nm
58detects existing disk mark, it aborts with some error messages.
59.Fl f
60option prevents this behaviour.
61.It Fl c
62Check only.
63.Nm
64looks at the disk whether it is already marked.
65.It Fl p
66Do not create the partition table.
67.It Fl m Ar mboot
68Specifies the mboot program to be written.
69.El
70.Sh FILES
71.Bl -tag -width /usr/mdec/mboot -compact
72.It Pa /usr/mdec/mboot
73The default primary boot program.
74.El
75.Sh SEE ALSO
76.Xr boot 8 ,
77.Xr installboot 8
78.Sh HISTORY
79The
80.Nm
81utility first appeared in
82.Nx 1.5 .
83.Sh AUTHORS
84.Nm
85was written by
86.An MINOURA Makoto Aq minoura@NetBSD.org .
87