* Add documentation on how to update the bootblocks on your internal

(wd0) disk
 * Make clear that the floppy-example needs a filesystem on the floppy
 * Add example for bootstrap-only floppy without any filesystem, by
   Frederick Bruckman <fb@enteract.com>

Adresses PR 11207 by Wolfgang Rupprecht <wolfgang@wsrcc.com>
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.\" $NetBSD: installboot.8,v 1.12 2000/09/28 16:18:42 hubertf Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: installboot.8,v 1.13 2000/10/13 01:20:58 hubertf Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1997 Perry E. Metzger. All rights reserved.
.\" Copyright (c) 1996, 1997 Christopher G. Demetriou. All rights reserved.
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\&.
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.Sh EXAMPLES
Assuming the file containing the boot program is in its typical place,
Assuming the system containing the boot program is in its typical place,
and you wished to make
.Pa /dev/fd0a
bootable. To install the boot blocks, one then would issue the command:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
installboot -f /usr/mdec/biosboot.sym /dev/rfd0a
.Ed
.Pp
Note that the -f option is needed if the floppy is unlabeled -- see
.Xr disklabel 8 .
Also, be sure to
.Xr newfs 8
the floppy before running installboot, as this is needed to copy a
kernel to it later, that the bootloader can boot then.
.Pp
It is also possible to make a bootstrap-only floppy without any
filesystem by using the following command:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
/usr/mdec/installboot -f -b 200 /usr/mdec/biosboot.sym /dev/rfd0a
.Ed
.Pp
To install new bootblocks on your
.Pa wd0
harddisk, use the following command:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
/usr/mdec/installboot /usr/mdec/biosboot.sym /dev/rwd0a
.Ed
.Pp
.Sh BUGS
.Pp
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