41 lines
1.2 KiB
Groff
Executable File
41 lines
1.2 KiB
Groff
Executable File
.TH CDPROBE 8 "February 1st, 2010"
|
|
.SH NAME
|
|
cdprobe \- guess where the Minix CD is
|
|
.SH SYNOPSIS
|
|
.B cdprobe
|
|
.SH DESCRIPTION
|
|
.B Cdprobe
|
|
prints on standard output the name of the device (in
|
|
.BI /dev/c X d Y
|
|
form) of a device containing a CD with the proper layout to install Minix from it.
|
|
.br
|
|
Such a CD should have a MINIX cd label,
|
|
an IBM-format partition table at the beginning (like any hardisk),
|
|
and the file systems pointed to at positions
|
|
.IR p1
|
|
and
|
|
.IR p2
|
|
of that partition table, should be valid (mountable) Minix file systems.
|
|
.SH DIAGNOSTICS
|
|
The return code is
|
|
.B 0
|
|
after successfully printing the device, or
|
|
.B 1
|
|
if some error or unexpected condition occured.
|
|
Appropriate diagnostic messages are printed on standard error.
|
|
.SH NOTES
|
|
.B Cdprobe
|
|
probes all the possible drives on the system, so can try for a long time,
|
|
particularly when there are no readable CD, or when the controller cannot be
|
|
successfully addressed at hardware level.
|
|
.SH BUGS
|
|
There is some nasty hard-codery (like MINIX cd label) that can be improved on.
|
|
.SH "SEE ALSO"
|
|
.BR at (4),
|
|
.BR /etc/rc
|
|
on the initial ramdisk.
|
|
.SH AUTHOR
|
|
.I Cdprobe.c
|
|
was written by Ben Gras and Philip Homburg.
|
|
.\" This manual page by A. Leca, last revised 2010-02-01.
|