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From: flutter@vtcc1.cc.vt.edu (Lloyd Eldred)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: 3000UX AmigaDos partitions
Keywords: AmigaDos, 2.0, Amiga Unix, amiga 3000
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Date: 27 Sep 90 07:10:06 GMT
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    As President of the brand new Virginia Tech Amiga Users Group, I've been
getting a lot of questions from the new Freshmen CS students with their
3000UXes. Being a 1000 owner with AmigaDos 1.3, I'm not always able to help
them. Recently a recurring problem has occurred that I need some advice on.
    Basically, the students are accidentally formatting their AmigaDos hard
drive partitions. Their hard drives came pre-setup with a 1.3 partition, a
2.0 partition, and a large Unix partition. No one is sure how to restore 
an AmigaDos partition to it's autobooting original state.
    I played briefly with a deparmental machine. I was able to successfully
format the partition. Then, I tried the INSTALL command, to make the thing
bootable. This didn't work. Lastly, I copied an AmigaDos Workbench 2.0
disk onto the partition to make sure that that at least worked. It seemed to.
Thus, you could use the partition, if you booted from floppy.
    So, how does one make a partition bootable on the 3000? Does this include
copying Kickstart 2.0 onto the hard drive some how?
    I'm reasonably knowledgable about AmigaDos, at least up to 1.3, having had
my 1000 for 4 years now, so feel free to be technical.
    Thanks!

%% Lloyd Eldred -- ARUS President