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1.1     ! root        1: .\" Copyright (c) 1986 Regents of the University of California.
        !             2: .\" All rights reserved.  The Berkeley software License Agreement
        !             3: .\" specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution.
        !             4: .\"
        !             5: .\"    @(#)installboot.8v      7.1 (Berkeley) 6/19/86
        !             6: .\"
        !             7: .TH INSTALLBOOT 8V "June 19, 1986"
        !             8: .UC 7
        !             9: .SH NAME
        !            10: installboot \- installs a boot program in a file system
        !            11: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !            12: .B /usr/mdec/installboot
        !            13: bootblock bootprog special
        !            14: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !            15: .I Installboot
        !            16: concatentates
        !            17: .I bootblock
        !            18: and
        !            19: .I bootprog
        !            20: and writes at most BBSIZE bytes (from <sys/fs.h>)
        !            21: of them on the first bytes of
        !            22: .IR special .
        !            23: .SH FILES
        !            24: /usr/mdec/??boot       boot blocks
        !            25: .br
        !            26: /usr/mdec/boot??       boot programs
        !            27: .SH SEE ALSO
        !            28: newfs(8), dd(1)
        !            29: .SH EXAMPLES
        !            30: cd /usr/mdec
        !            31: .br
        !            32: installboot raboot bootra /dev/ra0a
        !            33: .SH HISTORY
        !            34: .I Installboot
        !            35: comes undocumented with 4.2BSD.
        !            36: This manual page was written by Geoff Collyer.
        !            37: .SH BUGS
        !            38: There is no convenient way to determine the names of the boot blocks
        !            39: and boot programs without
        !            40: .I "a priori"
        !            41: knowledge of one's make of disk.

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