On Wed, 27 Dec 1995 16:23:40 -0600 (CST) 
 "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> wrote:

 > fireball|Quantum Fireball 540s:\
 >         :ty=winchester:ns#138:nt#2:nc#3835:\
 >         :pa#131072:oa#0:ba#1024:fa#512:\
 >         :pb#131072:ob#131072:\
 >         :pc#1058460:oc#0:\
 >         :pd#131072:od#262144:\
 >         :pe#665244:oe#393216:
 > 
 > I newfs'ed the filesystems and installed the bootstrap using installboot
 > (and binstall /usr/mdec when the above didn't work)

You have to "disklabel" the disk first...

	# disklabel -w sd0 fireball

...assuming that's in your /etc/disktab.  Then newfs and binstall.

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