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Re: re-naming a drive

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The following bytes were arranged on 1 Oct 2012 by jgh@arcade.demon.co.uk:

> Jim Nagel wrote:
> > I'd like to give some harddrives a catchier (and shorter) name
> ...
> > Is there some clever way of doing it, ... that would avoid all
> > sorts of niggles such as "Please insert disc BootDiscSp" from other
> > software?  Or from other agents on the network.
>
> Make sure your boot sequence reads the boot drive name
> and then uses that from then onwards, instead of hard
> coding the name into everything. I have a small utility
> called !Boot.Utils.Boot.Root:

[snip]

> So then everything else refers to <Boot$Root> for the root
> directory of the drive booted from, eg:
>
> Filer_Run <Boot$Root>.Apps.Editors.!StrongEd

Since all that program will do, if placed within !Boot, is set
<Boot$Root> to the name of the hard disc on which the !Boot directory
resides, then a simpler way of getting exactly the same result is to
replace all usage of the disc name with "Boot:^", as in:

Filer_Run Boot:^.Apps.Editors.!StrongED

In fact, I believe the default boot sequence does exactly this.

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re-naming a drive Jim Nagel <jimnewsm10d@abbeypress.co.uk> - 2012-09-27 01:04 +0100
  Re: re-naming a drive jgh@arcade.demon.co.uk - 2012-10-01 06:43 -0700
    Re: re-naming a drive Martin Bazley <martin.bazley@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2012-10-01 15:50 +0100
      Re: re-naming a drive jgh@arcade.demon.co.uk - 2012-10-01 12:36 -0700
  Re: re-naming a drive Brian Carroll <bric-nospam@argonet.co.uk> - 2012-10-01 17:31 +0100

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