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From: cjs@cynic.portal.ca (Curt Sampson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Installing Bootblocks, JAZ Drive for NetBSD Alpha
Date: 5 Nov 1996 20:26:52 -0800
Organization: Internet Portal Services, Inc.
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In article <55mc00$s2p@baygull.rtd.com>,
John L. Sackett III  <jsackett@jsackett.slip.rtd.com> wrote:

>I also wish someone would point me to a reference for Installing Bootblocks.
>Am trying to load v1.2 Alpha on an IOMEGA JAZ 1 Gig drive.  Of course
>the bootblocks are probably different for the JAZ drive - unless I can
>dd /usr/mdec/ boot to the partition. The RZ25 image just doesn't cut it,
>and would like to make it work...

I don't see why this should be any different from installing on
any other type of hard drive. I just booted and installed my Multia
from an RZ25 image dd'd to a Jaz disk. (I'll probably be wiping
that Jaz disk and making it bootable in the next few days. In the
meantime I just doubled the number of cylinders and added an `e'
partition to add an extra 420MB to store stuff.)

The instructions in the list archived worked just fine for the
internal drive, and should be identical (except for the disk number)
for the Jaz drive:

	mount /dev/sd1a /mnt
	cd /usr/mdec
	cp boot /mnt
	sync
	sync
	./installboot -v /mnt/boot bootxx /dev/sd1c

cjs
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