On Wed, 19 Nov 1997, maximum entropy wrote:

> >All the install instructions with _ALPHA basically are
> >
> >disklabel -W the/drive
> >gunzip -c the_image| dd of=/the/drive bs=10240
> >
> >What do I do under ULTRIX as the equivelant of the disklabel -W command
> >(which is basically just unlocking the boot sectors)?
> 
> I don't think there is an equivalent to "disklabel -W" under Ultrix.
> I would expect that if you chpt the disk and then dd the diskimage
> onto the raw c partition, it should just work.  This is essentially
> the "dirty hack" method described at
> 
> http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/pmax/pmax-install.html
> 
> but it's no longer a dirty hack, because the new diskimages and new
> kernels work well together to avoid all the issues that made this a
> "dirty hack" in the past.

Can we change the install notes to mention this?

Take care,

Bill