[Cube] instructions for hard drive swap?

[Riba]

> Tonight I thought I'd try the Maxtor 120 Gb drive in the cube but I 
> can't figure out what's got to be removed to get to the hard drive.
> I'm spoiled by how easy the powerbook is to get into.
> Can anyone give me some pointers an cube disassembly?
> I've got the first part figured out where you put it upside down and 
> pull up on the handle. After that it's less obvious.

You can download the PDF and even the quicktime movie that shows you the
necessary steps to replace the hard drive...can't give you the link
right now. If my memory server me well, there are two torx (8) screws
that keep the hard drive in place, once you get them off and disconnect
the cables, the drive slides out. It is very simple actually. Be careful
with the screws, they are easy to strip if you are not using the proper
tools.

> I have another question about the hard drive, it's partitioned into 100 
> Gb and 20 Gb with the 100 Gb partition first. I think the 100 Gb 
> partition is first (appears first on the desktop and in the system 
> profiler listing). Is this OK for a OS9-OSX installation?

Depends what you want to achieve. Two partitions are good only if you
want the possibility to choose whether you want to boot into OS 9 or OS
X at boot time using the Option key...besides that I can't see the
benefit of two partitions.

> Some of the earlier G3 powerbooks had to have OS9 on the first partition 
> which couldn't be bigger than 8 Gb. Does the cube have any such 
> restrictions?

No. The only restriction is that the total hd capacity must be less that
128 GB or such.