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Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 14:42:27 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: "Robert Wright." <robert@pluris.com>
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Subject: Re: Dissappearing boot files from fixit.flp
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On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, Robert Wright. wrote:

> While preparing to repartition my disk I discovered a strange problem.
> 
> The /usr/mdec directory dissappears from the fixit floppy when I use it 
> after booting up on the boot floppy.
> 
> This makes it kind of tricky to do #disklabel -B wd0

Eh?  Read the manpage, you can specify paths for the boot files:

disklabel -B -b /mnt/usr/mdec/boot1 -s /usr/local/mdec/boot2 wd0

Doug White                               
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