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From: peirce@gumby.cc.wmich.edu (Leonard J. Peirce)
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Subject: Re: procedures for restoring root partition wrong in SunOS4.0 manual
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Date: 5 Jan 89 04:53:35 GMT
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bob@kahala.hig.hawaii.edu (Bob Cunningham) writes:
>But, nothing works right...  Have faith; it's not your
>fault that nothing works right at this point, the procedures in the manual
>are both wrong and misleading.

Also, on page 104, step 9, the procedure for installing the boot block is
wrong.  The example is be

   # installboot /boot bootsd /dev/sd0a

It's wrong two different ways:

   1) The /boot is misleading in the context of the examples.  It should be
      /mnt/boot because /dev/sd0a is mounted on /mnt.

   2) installboot only works with raw devices.  It should use /dev/rsd0a.

The way the installboot example should read is:

   # installboot /mnt/boot bootsd /dev/rsd0a
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