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From: nsw@cord.UUCP (Neil Weinstock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Relabelling RAM:
Message-ID: <674@cord.UUCP>
Date: 28 Jan 89 18:31:35 GMT
References: <34939@bbn.COM> <549@jc3b21.UUCP>
Reply-To: nsw@cord.UUCP (Neil Weinstock)
Organization: The Flying Squid Patrol
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In article <549@jc3b21.UUCP> fgd3@jc3b21.UUCP writes:
>From article <34939@bbn.COM>, by cosell@bbn.com (Bernie Cosell):
>> I've been fiddling around with my WB disk icons and the mountlist and
>> such and I have a couple of baby questions (these all with 1.3 on a 2000):
>> 
>> a) Where does "RAM:" get its name?  I've tried rename from workbench,
>>    but when I reboot ram comes back as "RAM DISK:".  [This worked fine
>>    for the Recoverable ram, disk -- a raname to "RRD:" and I no longer
>>    have to see 'ramb0:']
>
>     Use "Relabel RAM: RAM" in your Startup-Sequence file.  Remember that
>the RAM: disk goes away everytime you reboot.  It gets recreated the first
>time it is referenced.  So include a reference to RAM: (such as copy echo
>to RAM:") in your startup sequence.  Then relabel it.  The new name will
>last until you boot the system again.

For those who are unaware, you can also change the icon image of RAM: so you
don't get that generic picture of a disk.  Normally, when RAM: is created,
(or does loadwb do it?) the system looks in it for disk.info, which contains 
the icon info.  Not finding one, it creates a generic one.  You can get 
around this by editing the RAM: icon (using iconed or whatever) and then 
copying RAM:disk.info to somewhere on your boot disk.  

BE SURE TO CHANGE THE NAME OF THE FILE WHEN YOU SAVE IT.  I saved mine in 
/usr/misc/ram.diskinfo.  Then, in your startup sequence, sometime before 
loadwb, put in a line like:

copy /usr/misc/ram.diskinfo RAM:disk.info  ;Move icon into RAM:

That oughtta do it!

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