[P1] iBook Hypothetical

[Eric B. Richardson]

At 10:04 AM -0500 1/6/03, david wrote:
>  > I use a G3 266 desktop, upgraded to a 450MHz G4, as well as my
>>  icebook. In this case, I believe there is some firmware issue that
>>  requires me to have the first partition where OSX resides be 8 GB or
>>  less and then the other partitions don't matter, including if I want
>>  to boot OS 9 off another partition. But that first 8 Gigs is an
>>  essential partition and putting the system and some apps on it eats
>>  up a little less than half. Partitioning becomes essential for us
>>  folk.
>>
>>  But you are right about the icebook, I think.
>>
>Yes, I too had a souped up beige G3 for a while and it wasn't any problem
>because I had a 6 gig drive (as well as a 30 gig drive). However, I think I
>remember reading that a subsequent update to OS X has changed that. Could be
>wrong, I've stopped paying attention to older machines since my clients and
>I all have newer machines now.

David or anyone, can you verify this. I am about to go to Jag, and it 
would be nice to forget about partitioning to an 8 gig piece of my 60 
gig, if this is true. This could be really great. I promise no 
responses to anything off-topic for two weeks (at least onlist). I 
would promise four, but I am a little older now, and four weeks might 
be hard to keep track of.