I think what Angelo means is that he is surprised you can install and boot from an external USB drive ( so am I ) If this was a Firewire attached drive, you would have no problem. I have a SCSI box with OS9.1 and OSX Jaguar installed which boots from either OS to a Wallstreet and Lombard and a Firewire box with OS9.2.1 and OSX Tiger that can boot my Pismo. If you don't have a firewire enclosure why don't you install the drive in the Pismo and just install OSX there ?
Stewie On Sep 8, 5:15 am, Calla2 <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey folks, > > I'm running OS 10.4.6/Tiger on a 500 MHz G3 Pismo with 1 GB of memory. > Since I struggle to keep 2.5 GB free on the 12 GB hard drive, I > decided to uprgade to a new 80 GB drive. > > I put the new 80 GB drive in an external USB enclosure. I used the > disk utility to erase the drive and then made 4 partitions (yeah, I > know partitioning erases the drive but I'm being thorough). The 1st > partition (where I want to install both OS 9.2.2 and Tiger) is 7.1 GB > and, like the other 3 partitions, is formatted to "Mac OS Extended > (Journaled)." > > Next I installed OS 9.2.1 on the 1st partition, and was able to boot > from it and upgrade to 9.2.2 easily. I was also able to install and > run a few OS 9 programs (e.g., iCab, Mozilla 1.3., and MS Word > Office). These programs were all installed on the second partition. > > Now certain that OS 9.2.2 is bootable and running fine, I attempted to > also install OS X on the 1st partition of the 80 GB drive (still in > the enclosure). I booted into the install OS X DVD, and the only drive > that it will let me select for installation (more specifically, > "upgrade") is the internal 12 GB drive: the 4 partitions on the > enclosure show up but are not available for installation. Using Disk > Utility on the install disk also shows all 4 partitions, and none of > them have any errors when I verify the disks (I'm not allowed to > verify or repair permissions so I can't tell if that is the problem). > I don't know if it matters, but the icons for the partitions are those > orange external drives with the usb symbols instead of the gray > 'enclosure-less' drive icon for the internal drive. I even tried using > the restore feature, which got all of the OS X files into the 1st > partition, but the 80 GB is still not bootable into OS X. When I try > to use the 'startup disk' feature on the install DVD, the only options > available are my internal drive and OS 9 on the 80 GB drive. > > I've tried a number of machinations to get this to work, but I won't > bore you with the details. Obviously I'm doing something wrong, so I'm > turning to you brilliant powerbook minds to help me out: how can I > install both OS 9.2.2 and OS 10.4.6 on a new 80 GB drive so that I can > boot into both OSs? I hope I provided sufficient detail and look > forward to your responses. TIA. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are a member of G-Books, 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] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g-books Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
