84 lines
2.8 KiB
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84 lines
2.8 KiB
Groff
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.\" $NetBSD: newdisk.8,v 1.1 1999/12/24 16:51:25 minoura Exp $
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.\" Copyright (c) 1998 MINOURA Makoto.
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.\" All rights reserved.
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.\"
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.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
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.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
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.\" are met:
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.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
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.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
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.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
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.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
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.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
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.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software
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.\" must display the following acknowledgement:
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.\" This product includes software developed by Minoura Makoto.
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.\" 4. The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote products
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.\" derived from this software without specific prior written permission
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.\"
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.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR
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.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES
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.\" OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED.
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.\" IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT,
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.\" INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT
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.\" NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE,
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.\" DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY
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.\" THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT
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.\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF
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.\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
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.\"
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.Dd December 24, 1999
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.Os
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.Dt NEWDISK 8
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm newdisk
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.Nd "Prepare a new disk to be usable for X680x0"
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Nm
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.Op Fl vnfc
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.Op Fl m Ar mboot
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.Ar raw_device
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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.Nm
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prepares a new hard disk to be bootable from by X680x0. It should NOT be used
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for floppy disks.
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.Pp
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It creates a disk mark for IOCS to determine the disk geometry,
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writes the primary boot program (mboot), and creates empty partition table.
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The option are as follows:
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.Bl -tag -width flag
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.It Fl v
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Verbose mode.
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.It Fl n
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Dryrun mode. Nothing is written to the disk.
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.It Fl f
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Force. Usually, when
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.Nm
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detects existing disk mark, it aborts with some error messages.
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.Fl f
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option prevents this behaviour.
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.It Fl c
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Check only.
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.Nm
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looks at the disk wheter it is already marked.
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.It Fl m Ar mboot
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Specifies the mboot program to be written.
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.El
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.Sh FILES
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.Bl -tag -width /usr/mdec/mboot -compact
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.It Pa /usr/mdec/mboot
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The default primary boot program.
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.El
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr boot 8 ,
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.Xr installboot 8
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.Sh AUTHOR
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.Nm
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was written by MINOURA Makoto <minoura@netbsd.org>.
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.Sh HISTORY
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The
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.Nm
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utility first appeared in
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.Nx 1.5 .
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