I "preserved" my OS 9.1 on one drive, and installed 9.22 & OS X.2 on a
different drive. My idea is that if things went all the heck with OSX, I
could still revert to the other hard drive with my old reliable OS 9.1 &
get some work done. I have actually had a only few issues, mostly with
OS 10.1.x & classic, that made it very worth it to have the choice. As
part of some of the OS 10.1.x updated, it thrashed my "classic" and I was
really glad to have a quick way to boot into 9 right away.
I actually got a 2nd hard drive for this operation. The reason is that
even holding down option at boot, you can only select which VOLUME to
boot from, not which OS on that volume.
Since you asked, Here's how I partitioned my 2 HD's
Original drive:
Main Boot: 23 gigs (7 avail)
Sesame 3 gigs (I was going to encrypt this one)
HD3 3 gigs (storage for "clean sys folder, just in case)
Mac OS X HD:
XDrive (Boot OS X & Classic) 8 gig - (4gb avail)
I would actually go bigger; because the "Users" folders are
here.
Point Nine (staging area for CD's) .9 Gig
Data48: 48 Gigs (music & big stuff)
I sort of overdid it with the partitioning. I do like the fact I have a
9.1 system, separate from my OSX & Classic. but on the other hand, I have
3 OS folders, that I have to hunt through when I'm looking for
preferences. I almost never boot from the 9.1 OS, but I like knowing it's
there.
If I were to do it over again, I would still prefer to have 2 HD's. but
probably just that, and no more partitions. But whatever...
Hope this helps.
Best,
Dave Nathanson
Mac Medix
On 4/3/03 9:40 PM, Roger Diggle [EMAIL PROTECTED] tapped the keyboard to
say:
>I've heard this discussed here a few times --
>installing X and 9 on separate partitions --
>but haven't ever caught the reasoning behind
>it. Is there someplace that the reasoning is
>laid out, along with recommended partition
>size for OS 9, perhaps?
>
>Thanks in advance...
>
>Roger
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