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.TH INSTALLBOOT 8V "June 19, 1986"
.UC 7
.SH NAME
installboot \- installs a boot program in a file system
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B /usr/mdec/installboot
bootblock bootprog special
.SH DESCRIPTION
.I Installboot
concatentates
.I bootblock
and
.I bootprog
and writes at most BBSIZE bytes (from <sys/fs.h>)
of them on the first bytes of
.IR special .
.SH FILES
/usr/mdec/??boot	boot blocks
.br
/usr/mdec/boot??	boot programs
.SH SEE ALSO
newfs(8), dd(1)
.SH EXAMPLES
cd /usr/mdec
.br
installboot raboot bootra /dev/ra0a
.SH HISTORY
.I Installboot
comes undocumented with 4.2BSD.
This manual page was written by Geoff Collyer.
.SH BUGS
There is no convenient way to determine the names of the boot blocks
and boot programs without
.I "a priori"
knowledge of one's make of disk.

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