[CUBE] problem installing JAG

[Hal]

On Monday, January 13, 2003, at 12:29 AM, Riba wrote:

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> On Monday, January 13, 2003, at 07:44 AM, Thubten Kunga wrote:
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>> 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.
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> 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.
>
>
Jag is installed on the second partition of my Pismo. It's only on 
machines that do not have new world architecture or UMA that it needs 
to be installed on the first partition and within the first 8GB.

-Hal