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From: paul@eye.com (Paul B. Booth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: bootable disk on hp 9000
Message-ID: <1990Nov21.151139.26893@eye.com>
Date: 21 Nov 90 15:11:39 GMT
References: <1990Nov19.020543.26379@rducky.uucp> <7370258@hpfcso.HP.COM>
Reply-To: paul@eye.com (Paul B. Booth)
Organization: 3D/Eye Inc., Ithaca, NY
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In article <7370258@hpfcso.HP.COM> steve-t@hpfcso.HP.COM (Steve Taylor) writes:
>} What steps do I take to format a new disk and make it bootable?
>
>Create appropriate device files (depends on:  S300 or S800; HP-IB, SCSI, 
>or ...; etc.), attach the disk, and run newfs on it.  newfs defaults to
>making a bootable disk, unless the -n option is specified.  See newfs(1m)
>in the HP-UX Reference.

Umm, if it's a new disk, you want to run mediainit on it before you newfs.

If you're not familiar w/ these commands, you'd be much better off using
sam (hp's sysadmin program) to add the drive.  Sam's menu driven and relatively
monkey-proof.  Fire it up and go to the "File Systems" section and then into
"Add a Hard Disk Drive."

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