Sorry, I should have specified -- Pismo, 500 MHz. I know that I don't have the 8 gb limitation.
It'll be running 10.4.11 . I have temporarily (I hope!) misplaced one of my install disks, which is the only reason I haven't formatted the drive yet! What I'm concerned about is losses in speed from data being scattered across the whole disk. Also, possible data corruption -- if one partition is corrupted the data in other partitions will still be safe, but if there's no partitions all the data may be lost. On Dec 7, 2008, at 11:43 PM, Ashgrove wrote: > > Ione, > > That depends on several things, the first of which would be what kind > of machine you have. If you have an Old World Mac, you have to make an > 8 GB boot partition, like Brian points out, for each operating system > you want to boot from. > > If it's New World (the Lombard and the clamshell iBooks are the first > NW ones, if I remember correctly), then it depends on how many > operating systems you want to install. I don't see any other point to > partitioning, other than that and, in some bigger drives, just a way > to organize your data, AFAIK. > > Hope it helps. > > Felix > -- Ione Smith East TN Doberman Rescue -- http://www.etdr.org -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 865-776-7636 Facts About Albino Dobermans -- http://www.whitedobes.com Speak truth to power -- old Quaker principle --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
