Microport System V/386 install woes

[scott at cdp.UUCP]

Note that when you do a low level format with an MS-DOS utility
be *sure* the MS-DOS utility does not do any sparing (which
sometimes means you have to tell it to not do any testing).
Then, use diskadd or the boot disk to do the sparing.

echo * is a reasonable alternative to ls .  Also, I once created
shell scripts to do cat, sed (search & replace), grep, etc, and
it worked fairly well (using case statements for the pattern
matching).  But it's much easier to just mount a hard disk with a
Unix filing system than put the mounted disk's binary directories
in your search path (or copy a few utilities over to the boot
disk; I copied a kernel with a tape cartridge, and then the dd and
tape utilities, so I could reboot off cartridge tape).

Don't forget that the table of sector to bfi is wrong for 3:1
interleave.

-scott