[CUBE] problem installing JAG

Thubten Kunga Kunga at FutureMedia.org
Tue Jan 14 17:37:30 PST 2003


Not my bad as much as it is my believing and passing on what I was told 
by an Apple "genius" at the Palo Alto Apple Store at the Jaguar launch 
event last September. Pardon me.

k

On Tuesday, January 14, 2003, at 05:17  AM, Sergei Zak wrote:

> 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.
> Not true - I have installed it on second partition. Do you think it 
> would not detect the situation? It boots off my second volume, indeed!
>> 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.
> It's the Windows NT limitation (the startup volume must not exceed 8G 
> and the bootloader files must fit into first 4G of it).
>>  I think 10GB is better size to try.
> I personally love number 14 :)
>> You definitely can not and do not want to install OS X on any other 
>> partition. It Must be the first one.
> Sorry to say it but Kunga you got a little mixed up.



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