[X-HW] Open Firmware and MacOSX Related Question

[Rick Carlson]

Actually I made two partitions. One of 1 Gigabyte and the other of 3.25 
Gigabytes. I put OS 8.5 on the first partition and OS X on the second. 
Works just fine now. 8-)

Thanks!

Rick
rcarlson52 at nethere.net


Michael Winter wrote:
> 
> On Monday, March 3, 2003, at 12:43  PM, Chris Foote wrote:
> 
>>> No, it is a beige mini tower but with full color monitor. Both the built
>>> in video card and the added on ATI Rage 128 are in full color.
>>>
>>> <snip>
>>
>> Many people don't realize that OS X needs a lot of breathing room. I 
>> would never try to put it into less than 5 GB. So I would either get a 
>> bigger HD or use only a single partition.
> 
> 
> Keep in mind for the older G3's like the beige mini-tower in question, 
> the entire OS X has to be in the first partition and that partition has 
> to be less that 8 GB. So if you put it a big HD and want to use it to 
> boot OS X you have to make the first partition less than 8 GB, 7.9 GB 
> being the safe size to put in. One tech note that addresses the issue 
> can be found at <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25249> .
> 
> -Mike