Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!decwrl!shlump.nac.dec.com!michaud From: michaud@decvax.dec.com (Jeff Michaud) Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix Subject: Re: Seeking "ultrixboot" for DS3100s -- where is it? Keywords: ultrixboot Message-ID: <4668@shlump.nac.dec.com> Date: 12 Sep 89 17:08:37 GMT References: <11584@boulder.Colorado.EDU> <89Sep12.013320edt.30809@snow.white.toronto.edu> Sender: news@shlump.nac.dec.com Lines: 24 In article <11584@boulder.Colorado.EDU>, hartzell@boulder.Colorado.EDU (George Hartzell) writes: > newfs puts the boot stuff in the boot partition. > From the newfs(8) man page: > mkfs, then builds the file system by forking mkfs and, if > the file system is a root partition and installs the neces- > sary bootstrap program in the initial 16 sectors of the dev- > ice. That's different from /ultrixboot. In anycase if you have a ris environment setup for DS3100's, you can do a: # cd / # restore if - <~ris/ROOT restore> add ultrixboot restore> extract Have fun! /--------------------------------------------------------------\ |Jeff Michaud michaud@decwrl.dec.com michaud@decvax.dec.com| |DECnet-ULTRIX #include | \--------------------------------------------------------------/