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.Dd April 4, 1999
.Dt INSTALLBOOT.OLD 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm installboot.old
.Nd install bootstrap software
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm installboot.old
.Op Fl nv
.Fl b Ar bn
.Ar boot
.Ar bootxx
.Ar rawdiskdevice
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Bf -symbolic
This program has been obsoleted by
.Xr installboot 8
and should only be used to configure boot blocks for
.Dq ustarfs
booting.  Use it at your own risk.
.Ef
.Pp
The options recognized by
.Nm
are as follows:
.Bl -tag -width -b\ bn
.It Fl n
Do not actually write anything on the disk.
.It Fl v
Verbose mode.
.It Fl b Ar bn
This flag and argument are required.  Assume that
.Pa boot
is contiguously present with initial block number
.Ar bn .
.El
.Pp
The arguments are:
.Bl -tag -width rawdiskdevice
.It Ar boot
The name of the second-stage boot program in the file system
where the first-stage boot program is to be installed.
.It Ar bootxx
The name of the prototype file for the first-stage boot program.
.It Ar rawdiskdevice
The name of the device corresponding to the raw whole-disk partition (the
.Dq raw partition )
of the disk on which the first-stage boot program is to be installed.
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr boot 8 ,
.Xr installboot 8
.Sh HISTORY
This version of the
.Nx Ns Tn /alpha
.Nm installboot
command first appeared in
.Nx 1.2 .
In
.Nx 1.4
it was replaced with a new version, and this
version was renamed to
.Nm installboot.old .