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From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: how to partition a hard drive?
Message-ID: <19945@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 18 Mar 91 18:34:32 GMT
References: <91074.094710MAJI@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU>
Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <91074.094710MAJI@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU> MAJI@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU (Ma. Ji) writes:
>Howdy:

>I was try to cut work: into two and name some other name.  I used the
>HDTool.  There is option for HD partition.  After I select the work:
>and narrow its space into 20MB and select the free space and name
>it test:.  The program resquest a reboot --fine.  After reboot, two
>partition appear with strange name as WORK:NDOS and TEST:??? (some
>junk charactar).  

The OS, at this point, has found both partitions, but neither of them has
been formatted.  The old format on the work partition is still showing up
to some degree, while the new partition isn't meaningful at all.

>I was try to use Icom rename option to rename them after rename they 
>disappear for a moment and reappear with the old name.  

You have to format them before RENAME or anything else will work on them.

>By the way, there is some confusion as I read amiga manual.  what is
>difference between work bench and AmigaShell and AmigaDOS?  It seems
>to me they all accept amigaDOS command and  workbench command!

To some degree that's true.  "AmigaDOS" actually refers to two things.  The
series of C: programs are in some sense "The Amiga Disk Operating System",
or AmigaDOS.  The DOS subsystem, which consists of a series of function calls
used by programs to speak to disk objects, is also generally referred to as
AmigaDOS, or "dos.library".  

A "shell" is the actual user interface presented to the user.  The Amiga Shell
is a text based user interface, similar to text based shells traditionally used
on other computers.  Workbench is a graphics based shell.  Ideally, both shells
allow you to do the same things; this is far truer in Amiga OS 2.0 than in the
old Amiga OS 1.3; Workbench in the latter system was not nearly as powerful as
the Amiga Shell.  Under 2.0, it's really your decision which environment you 
would rather use -- most things work in either.

>My machine comes with a disk called KickStart.  I check the index on
>the manual there is no such entry for it.  What does it do?  

The Kickstart disk contains the Amiga's operating system.  That operating 
system, on the A3000, is already on your hard disk.  As long as you don't do
anything to damage the WB_2.x: or WB_1.3: partitions, you shouldn't have any
need for the Kickstart disk.

>Maji


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