source: BOOK/final-system/mips/dvhtool.xml@ 1f7dd93

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<sect1 id="ch-system-dvhtool" role="wrap">
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  <title>Dvhtool-&dvhtool-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="ch-system-dvhtool">
    <primary sortas="a-Dvhtool">Dvhtool</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title/>

    <para>The Dvhtool package is used to manipulate volume headers
    of devices using sgi disk labels.</para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of Dvhtool</title>

 <note os="a">
    <para>This program is required for the Arcload bootloader, which is for
    SGI Workstations and SGI Servers based on MIPS Processors.</para>
  </note>

    <para os="b">This patch fixes build issues with Dvhtool and adds support
    for LVM and Linux partitions:</para>

<screen os="c"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&dvhtool-fixes-patch;</userinput></screen>

    <para os="d">Prepare Dvhtool  for compilation:</para>

<screen os="e"><userinput>./configure \
    --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>

    <para os="f">Compile the package:</para>

<screen os="g"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>

    <para os="h">Install the package:</para>

<screen os="i"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 id="contents-dvhtool" role="content">
    <title>Contents of Dvhtool</title>

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      <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>dvhtool</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
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      <varlistentry id="dvhtool">
        <term><command>dvhtool</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>A utility for displaying SGI disk partition and volume header
          information as well as for copying files to and from the volume
          header</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-dvhtool dvhtool">
            <primary sortas="b-dvhtool">dvhtool</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
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