classical wrote: Bare in mind one factor - if anything goes wrong with your install (and this can be as simple as Mac OS X needing to update the boot caches after a software update), it will force a reboot into an OS that is natively supported. It's therefore worth keeping a "classic" 9.x partition around. You can use a 10.2 partition, but I've always found XPostFacto under 10.2 really, really unreliable and annoying (as it repeatedly asks for the admin password.) My Wallstreet with a 20GB hard drive has 9.1 and 10.2 natively installed (Both in the first 8GB, 9.1 is about 200MB or something like that), and the majority of the drive is 10.3. If anything goes wrong, 9.1 will boot. I can then choose to boot from 10.2 using the 9.1 MacOS control panel or use XPostFacto to boot 10.3. Remember.. if you use XPostFacto, you can NOT use the native OS X or Mac OS boot disk selection mechanism, you MUST use XPostFacto.
M > Only the helper volume has to be smaller than 8GB and physically > within the first 8GB of the disk. There is nothing special about the > helper volume. It is just a named location within the first 8GB > where XPF can copy some boot information. Having done that, the > actual OS can reside on any size of partition, anywhere. > How small can your helper partition be? The ".XPostFacto" file on my > helper disk is 86.6 MB. Perhaps a 100MB partition might be safe > enough? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
