[HM] Re: need imac advice ASAP!

[TeeGate]

Jane,

Partitioning is a personal preference on how you want to do that. I 
have my OS9 and X on two equal size partitions. But I also have another 
OS9 system on my OSX partition, but it is limited on extensions. The 
reason why is that if I have the OS 9 partition set up to be my classic 
system for X, there is sometimes a conflict. So I keep a stripped down 
9 system on the X partition so that Classic boots into that one with 
limited conflicts. When I want the full 9 system I just hold down the D 
key at startup and it boots into the fully loaded 9. I believe to do 
this requires to have 9 on the first partition but I may be wrong.

So my suggestion from my experience would be that if you wipe the 
drives and partition the drives equally, use the 9 CD to do this and 
install 9 on the first partition. Then install X on the second one and 
using X set the startup disk to be the X partition. So when running in 
X and you want to switch to 9, just restart and hold the D key. If you 
don't hold the D key it will always start in X. Others may have another 
opinion on this and hopefully they will pass that on.

The only problem that I have found with two partitions is say for 
example you have thousands of photo's as I have in iPhoto, your X drive 
will fill up quicker than the 9 and you possibly may run out of room on 
one drive. I only have a 20 gigs so with X only having 10, I have 
filled that up completely with my photo's.

My CD's are hot also. Normal!

If you are new to X here is a freeware that is a must when using X. It 
will allow you to switch between running Apps and the Finder.

Also, this website gives you thousands of hints on X including how to 
"hack" the display of the clock.

http://www.macosxhints.com/index.php

http://versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/10005

Congratulations on your new computer. I hope this one treats you as 
well and as long as your last.

Guy


On Sunday, May 4, 2003, at 02:15  PM, Jane Sprando wrote:

> I wish the hard drive had been partitioned for each OS, but I am 
> reluctant
> to go through all the hassle of reformatting and reinstalling, 
> especially
> the reinstalling!
>
> A few questions:
>
> 1. Should I partition the hard drive into separate for 9 and 10? If I 
> do,
> should they be equal in size?