Subject: Re: my friends' install...
To: Phil Nelson <phil@steelhead.cs.wwu.edu>
From: Michael Graff <explorer@flame.org>
List: tech-install
Date: 09/18/1998 15:08:27
Phil Nelson <phil@steelhead.cs.wwu.edu> writes:
> >dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rwd0d count=1024
> >disklabel wd0 >/tmp/wd0.label
> >[edit /tmp/foo apprpriately]
> >disklabel -r -R wd0 /tmp/wd0.label
> >cd /usr/mdec
> >./installboot -v biosboot.sym /dev/rwd0a
>
> Cool, I'll try it. And then if it works I'll change sysinst
> to do the above if the whole disk is selected. This could save
> a whole bunch of problems.
Perhaps, but I think it will create more down the road...
PeeCees live in a BIOS world, with disklabels and such. I sorta think
we need to use them...
--Michael