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- From: dg@sundog.caltech.edu (DALE GARY)
- Subject: Summary: removing A3000 WB1.3 partition
- Message-ID: <31AUG199209005516@sundog.caltech.edu>
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- Organization: California Institute of Technology
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 17:00:00 GMT
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- In comp.sys.amiga.hardware, I wrote the following:
-
- >I just added a 120 MB hard disk to my A3000, and I would like to take this
- >opportunity to get rid of the WB 1.3 partition that came with the existing
- >50 MB drive. My plan is to copy all of the files from the 50 MB drive
- >(partitions SYS and Work) to the 120 MB drive, then reformat the 50 MB
- >drive, getting rid of the WB1.3 partition, and finally recopying all of
- >the files back.
-
- >My problem is that I don't know how the system determines where Kickstart
- >is. Is it hardcoded in ROM to look in some directory of SYS, for example?
- >If I merely follow the above procedure blindly, will it work, or will
- >I overwrite some hidden file or file structure, never to boot my machine
- >again? Where is the hard-disk-based Kickstart, anyway?
-
- >Any advice will be appreciated. Thanks
-
- >Dale Gary
- >dg@sundog.caltech.edu
-
- Thanks to all of the people who responded to my question about removing
- the WB1.3 partition of my A3000 hard drive. I got a lot of suggestions,
- most of which were valid in terms of safety, but seemed sort of overkill
- to me. For example, it was suggested that I make the 120 MB drive bootable,
- put the system on it, then reboot from the 120 MB drive before wiping out
- the 50 MB drive. This was undesirable, because I already had data on the
- 120 MB drive, and I didn't want to repartition it.
-
- Anyway, here is the procedure I actually used, and it worked just fine.
-
- 1) I copied the two partitions I wanted to keep from the 50 MB drive to the
- 120 MB drive, by dragging the System2.0: and Work: disk icons onto the
- 120 MB disk window. (It turns out that it was unnecessary to copy the
- Work: partition. For those who want to live life on the edge, if you
- don't have a second hard drive, but still want to get rid of the WB1.3
- partition, you could get away with backing up only the WB_2.x: partition
- to floppies. You might also want to backup the WB1.3 partition, of
- course.)
-
- 2) I then rebooted using the Kickstart2.04 and WB2.04
- floppies by turning the machine off, inserting the Kickstart disk and
- turning on the machine while holding down both mouse buttons. When the
- request screen appeared, I clicked on "boot 2.0 from floppies".
-
- 3) Once the machine was booted, I used HDTools to repartition the disk by
- deleting both the WB_2.x and WB_1.3 partitions, then adding a new WB_2.x
- partition, filling up all of the space that used to be used for the two
- partitions.
-
- 4) After activating the partitions in HDTools, I copied all of the files from
- the saved System2.0 directory on the 120 MB disk, by typing from the CLI
-
- copy data:system2.0 WB_2.x: clone all
-
- and when that was done I was able to reboot from the hard disk. Since
- I had not changed the Work: partition, I didn't have to rewrite that
- part at all.
-
- The key things I had to know were that the boot partition must be named
- WB_2.x: and that I should not wipe out the boot partition while it is in
- use. (I avoided the latter by booting from floppies.)
-
- Thanks again for all the suggestions. Good luck to those who want to try
- this. It is really quite painless.
-
- Dale Gary
- dg@sundog.caltech.edu
-