[G4] Beige G3toG4/CCC question...

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Is the 7.94Gb partition the FIRST partition on the hard drive? This is a 
critical point with early G3 Beige DT models.

I ran into installation problems galore with my beige DT until I confirmed 
that the OS-X installation has to be on the partition that holds the boot 
block data. If I tried to install OS-X on the second partition, it would 
complete the installation but refuse to recognize the system when booting and 
give me the spinning color wheel of death.

If the first partition was larger than 7.95Gb, I got the same disasterous 
results.

You can use the custom size box in Drive Setup to create the exact size of 
partition that you want. All you have to be sure of is that you select the 
number of partitions you want to create during the customized intitialization 
procedure and then select the uppermost partition in the window (the one that 
you want to install OS-x into) and type the size that you want that partition 
to be in the customizing box.

The remaining partition will be automatically resized to take the remainder 
of the space available because you have already selected the number of 
partitions that you want. There will be a very small "unallocated space" 
partition at the bottom of the partition window which you can view by hitting 
the Tab key to rotate through the partition blocks. This "unallocated space" 
should be about 5Kb and is nothing to worry about.

Hope this info helps,
Ron