cdprobe man page on Minix

cdprobe man page on Minix

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CDPROBE(8)							    CDPROBE(8)

NAME
       cdprobe - guess where the Minix CD is

SYNOPSIS
       cdprobe

DESCRIPTION
       Cdprobe	prints on standard output the name of the device (in /dev/cXdY
       form) of a device containing a CD with the  proper  layout  to  install
       Minix from it.
       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  p1  and  p2 of that partition table, should be valid (mount‐
       able) Minix file systems.

DIAGNOSTICS
       The return code is 0 after successfully printing the device,  or	 1  if
       some  error  or	unexpected  condition occured.	Appropriate diagnostic
       messages are printed on standard error.

NOTES
       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 con‐
       troller cannot be successfully addressed at hardware level.

BUGS
       There is some nasty hard-codery (like  MINIX  cd	 label)	 that  can  be
       improved on.

SEE ALSO
       at(4), /etc/rc on the initial ramdisk.

AUTHOR
       Cdprobe.c was written by Ben Gras and Philip Homburg.

			      February 1st, 2010		    CDPROBE(8)

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