DESCRIPTION
newdisk prepares a new hard disk to be bootable from by X680x0. It should NOT be used for floppy disks.
It creates a disk mark for IOCS to determine the disk geometry, writes the primary boot program (mboot), and creates empty partition table. The option are as follows:
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-v
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Verbose mode.
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-n
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Dryrun mode. Nothing is written to the disk.
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-f
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Force. Usually, when newdisk detects existing disk mark, it aborts with some error messages. -f option prevents this behaviour.
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-c
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Check only. newdisk looks at the disk whether it is already marked.
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-p
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Do not create the partition table.
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-m mboot
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Specifies the mboot program to be written.