[X Newbies] Using partitions?

[Brian Thorpe]

On Tuesday, November 26, 2002, at 10:58  AM, Michael Winter wrote:

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> On Tuesday, November 26, 2002, at 12:29  AM, Scott wrote:
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>> Not possible. The beige G3 requires 10 to be installed on the first 
>> partition, and requires that partition to be less than 8 GB in size.
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> And he has wisely set it to 7.9 GB. Seems some people have been bitten 
> by trying to set it at exactly 8, and as Scott says, it has to be less 
> than 8 (though 8 does seem to work for some, go figure).
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>
It was my understanding that *any* bootable operation system had to be 
on the first 8Gb of the drive. That would include OS9. If I am wrong, 
and booting 9 from beyond the 8Gb mark is possible I'd really like to 
know about it.

My partition scheme has been ( 1998 Rev A iMac - 40Gb HD, 384Mb ram, 
6Mb video ram) 1Gb for OS9, 6.9Gb for OSX, and the rest for Data such 
as Mp3s, pictures, OS9 applications, and all other non-OSX 
applications. It seems to work well and browsing the OSX partition is 
nice and clean, that is, free of OS9 clutter.

bri