Format of 386 Unix boot diskette

[Pim Zandbergen]

wolfe at cygnus.nm.paradyne.com (Mike Wolfe) writes:

>How did you make the disk bootable.  There is no entry in /etc/partitions
>for the floppy device and the only way I could see to make a disk bootable
>was with mkpart.

I don't know about AT&T UNIX 386, but with ISC's, you can make a
bootable floppy by making a filesystem on /dev/dsk/f0q15d (no 't' here),
copying the necessary files on it, and dd'ing /etc/fboot
onto /dev/rdsk/f0q15dt (that's with a 't' on the end)
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