Subject: installboot-ing ?
To: None <e.p.boven@student.utwente.nl>
From: Gordon W. Ross <gwr@mc.com>
List: port-sun3
Date: 11/14/1995 15:21:58
> From: e.p.boven@student.utwente.nl (Paul Boven)
> Date: Sat, 11 Nov 95 01:51:28 
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> Could anyone please give me some instructions on making a new SCSI-disk
> bootable? I've managed to partition and newfs it, and it even seems to
> be able to hold onto the data I put on it. But /usr/mdec/installboot at
> this moment won't work.

> I do ./installboot ufsboot bootxx /dev/rsd2a, after wich it complains that
> it only works on ufs-filesystem. The newfs etc. were all done with the 21.
> aug snapshot, and the SCSI-alfa-kernel, could that be the reason for my
> problems?

I fixed the source for installboot but have not yet updated the
binary snapshot.  I'll try to do it by this weekend...

Gordon