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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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