On this machine, OS X must be in the first 8 megs of the hard drive. I have a beige G3 desktop model that I divided into a 7.9 meg partition and other which worked just great. Bob On Sunday, March 2, 2003, at 02:29 PM, Rick Carlson wrote: > I can partition the hard drive any way I wish. So far I have done it > in one partition and in two partitions. Right now I have it set up as > two partitions with the first for OS 8.5 and the second for OS X. >