On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 12:02:55AM -0500, leam wrote:
> I'm trying to make the second disk in a Sparc Ultra-1 a NetBSD disk. The
> first disk already is, but I'm unable to run installboot on the second
> disk. I get:
> 
>   bsdboy# installboot /usr/mdec/bootblk /dev/sd1a
>   installboot: Reading block 16 in `/usr/mdec/bootblk': short read
>   installboot: `/dev/sd1a' must be a regular file: Undefined error: 0

You probably want:
You're missing something, installboot on sparc takes 3 arguments.
You also need to copy the boot prog to the /dev/sd1a filesystem
first.
But better use /usr/mdec/binstall, it's a script wich will hide the
details:
./binstall ffs /dev/sd1a

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 24 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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