[CUBE] problem installing JAG

[Riba]

On Monday, January 13, 2003, at 07:44 AM, Thubten Kunga wrote:

> This post reminded me that Jaguar MUST be installed on the first 
> partition. It's not on some disks. It's on any drive. A genius at the 
> Palo Alto Apple Store explained to me that UNIX can only see itself to 
> boot when the system is on the first partition. I forgot about this 
> until Sensei posted this below. I don't know about the size of the 
> partition needing to be 8GB although that's the size of mine. I think 
> 10GB is better size to try. You definitely can not and do not want to 
> install OS X on any other partition. It Must be the first one.

To put it simple, this is not true. OS X must be installed on the first 
8 GB of the physical drive _only_ on old iMacs, beige G3 machines and 
maybe some other machines from that era. That of course does not apply 
to our Cubes. And my OS X is installed on my third partition.