From: dg@sundog.caltech.edu (DALE GARY)
Subject: Summary: removing A3000 WB1.3 partition
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.40    
Organization: California Institute of Technology
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 17:00:00 GMT

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
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware