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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: Sebestyen Zoltan <szoli@netvisor.hu>
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Subject: Re: Question: what is /dev/rda0a? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 06 Oct 1999 09:42:17 +0200."
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On Wed, 06 Oct 1999 09:42:17 +0200, Sebestyen Zoltan wrote:

> I don't have no rda0a device configured.. I'd like to know from which
> device shall I copy the boot sector. My root partition resides on
> /dev/wd0s2a. Is that device I shall copy the bootsector from?

Almost. :-) the "r" means raw, so you probably want:

	/dev/rwd0s2a

Cia,
Sheldon.


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