On Saturday, May 8, 2004, at 08:56 Canada/Eastern, Lynn Persing wrote: > I recently bought a 120GB hard drive for my G4 400Mhz Sawtooth. I put > it in my system and set it to slave.[...] I don't recall the setting for your Mac; I'd check the Setup Guide manual which came with the machine. Newer Macs use cable select, but I think yours used master/slave. > [...] Is there any problem with running X as the main operating system > from a slave drive [...] None. From the user perspective, there's no difference between master and slave settings -- those terms are purely historical, they don't imply subordination. > I thought I'd use the OS X disk to partition it when I install. You can; whether you should or not depends on your needs. f