On 2008-10-26 16:44 -0700, Clark Martin wrote: >==========[snip]=========== >The OS files must be in a partition completely within the first 8Gb. >This is independent of the 128Gb drive size limit. >
Not so. If you use XPostFacto (required to run X.3 Panther or X.4 Tiger OS), you can boot up using a 'helper' volume, containing only a few KB of essential bootstrapping and cached startup files. Only these few files need to be within the first 8GB. The actual system can reside on a much larger partition elsewhere. I am currently running Tiger from a 20GB partition, with helper files on an initial 6 GB partition. I found using Apple's Disk Utility the first partition has to be 'unquestionably' less than 8GB. Creating an 8.0 GB partition did not work; 7.99 didn't work either, but 7.96 did. hth.. AD --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's G-Books list, a group for those using G3 iBooks and PowerBooks (we run a separate list for G4 'Books). The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g-books?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
