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CDPROBE(8)                  System Manager's Manual                 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
       (mountable) 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
       controller 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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