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From: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Default Partition Names on 3000 (was: Attaching a HD to a 3000)
Message-ID: <15099@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 11 Oct 90 19:42:31 GMT
References: <1990Oct9.022719.29879@NCoast.ORG> <15017@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1990Oct10.225406.8679@ecst.csuchico.edu>
Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <1990Oct10.225406.8679@ecst.csuchico.edu> mrush@cscihp.UUCP writes:
>In article <15017@cbmvax.commodore.com> jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) writes:
>>
>>	No, not unless you named it WB_2.x: or WB_1.3:.
>
>	This issue came up recently using somebody elses 3000 (Me?  A 3000??
>Maybe when I win the lottery...) can the NAMES of these partitions be CHANGED?
>And if so, how?  As near as I can tell, they are coded directly into the
>Kickstart file.

	You can relabel them, of course.  It's just the partition names that
can't be changed.

>	If we change the partition name, and then, using a sector editor, like
>NewZap, change the same references in the KickStart file, will the system be
>able to boot correctly?

	No comment.  However, remember Kickstart has a checksum.

-- 
Randell Jesup, Keeper of AmigaDos, Commodore Engineering.
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