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@(#)installboot.8 7.1 (Berkeley) 06/19/86
All rights reserved. The Berkeley software License Agreement
specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution.
@(#)installboot.8 7.1 (Berkeley) 06/19/86
INSTALLBOOT 8V ""
C 7 NAME
installboot - installs a boot program in a file system
SYNOPSIS
/usr/mdec/installboot bootblock bootprog special
DESCRIPTION
Installboot concatentates
bootblock and
bootprog and writes at most BBSIZE bytes (from <sys/fs.h>)
of them on the first bytes of
special . FILES
/usr/mdec/??boot boot blocks
/usr/mdec/boot?? boot programs
SEE ALSO
newfs(8), dd(1)
EXAMPLES
cd /usr/mdec
installboot raboot bootra /dev/ra0a
HISTORY
Installboot comes undocumented with 4.2BSD.
This manual page was written by Geoff Collyer.
BUGS
There is no convenient way to determine the names of the boot blocks
and boot programs without
"a priori" knowledge of one's make of disk.