Re: landisk (Plextor) installation stuff

[Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost>]

john%ziaspace.com@localhost wrote:

> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sd0d count=1000
> dd if=/usr/dest-landisk/usr/mdec/mbr of=/dev/rsd0d bs=512 count=1
> fdisk -0 -u /dev/sd0d
> (don't change what BIOS thinks, sys ID 169, start 63, use the rest of the 
> disk, no bootmenu, don't update bootcode, write to disk)
> fdisk -a sd0
> (want to change, select partition 0, happy, write)
> disklabel -i -I sd0
> (a, 4.2BSD, 63, `disk minus swap`, b, swap, a, $, e, unused, 0, 0, W, y, Q)
> newfs /dev/rsd0a
> installboot -m landisk -v /dev/rsd0a /usr/dest-landisk/usr/mdec/bootxx_ffsv1
> mount /dev/sd0a /mnt
> cp /usr/dest-landisk/usr/mdec/boot /mnt
> (in sh)
> cd /mnt
> for file in /usr/dest-landisk/sets/*.tgz; do tar xzpf $file; done
> cd /mnt/dev ; ./MAKEDEV all

This procedure seems working for me on my Lantank.
(at least it boots to single user)

Note I saw some type of drives that might not be recognized by
the firmware properly.

uwe%stderr.spb.ru@localhost wrote:

> You *do* need to install bootcode from ${DESTDIR}/usr/mdec/mbr

It looks he did it by dd(1).
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Izumi Tsutsui