Hello everybody, Just wanted to post a quick follow-up, in case it may be useful for any other tinkerers out there.
Following a suggestion in the Apple Discussion Forums (thanks, jpl!), I ditched the printer drivers and used Monolingual to strip the system of all the languages I'm not going to use, like, EVER. Before that, the free space in the 8GB partition was about 2.5GB. Now, it's 4.88GB --more than HALF. It might be my imagination at work, but Tiger seems a little snappier, as far as that goes, anyway. Amazingly usable, though --I'm typing this entry on my Wallstreet. There is a lot of life left in these 11-year old machines. Thanks again for all the help, support, and good will. And Pat, you're absolutely right --reviving one of this wonderful Triceratops IS great practice. Best to all, F On Oct 18, 12:35 pm, Ashgrove <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I finally found the original Tiger DVD (it was taking a vacation in > VMWare Fusion's box, or having an affair, or whatever software disks > do while unsupervised). The finicky DVD drive recognized it, and after > a couple funk-ups Tiger was installed, the alarmed partition booted > (yes, Derek, mine also gives me the alarm signal and works fine), > updates were installed, and peace settled it. > > Of course, after the fact one does realize this isn't the perfect > computer for running OS X. I killed the Dashboard using a tip from > macoshints.com, used Shadowkiller to free some GPU memory, installed > Namoroka (the latest G3-optimized Firefox version) as my browser of > choice, but it's still pretty marginal. It does work, though. You > gotta hand it to it. It plows along. MS Office X is usable, although I > might be better served using a lighter word processor that uses less > RAM. > > It's not a laptop for watching movies (which is a pity, because the > screen is beautiful), or doing anything too heavy, but for > wordprocessing and some light Web browsing is very well suited. (Well, > it's not a laptop at all, because it gets PIPING hot. It can fry your, > er, thighs.) The much-praised keyboard is every bit as magnificent as > fame has it, and the whole feel of it is oddly comforting. Newer > notebooks are never this comfortable to work with, despite being > faster and lighter. > > But I'm ranting. Thanks for all the help and support so far. And > again, any tips as to free some space in this partition will be mighty > appreciated. (I'm of course installing all extra OS X programs in a > special folder in the big OS 9 partition, so that part is taken care > of.) > > Best, > > Felix > > P.S. I just realized I never disclosed my new partition scheme: > > 1) 8GB: OS X > 2) 10GB: OS 9 and everything else --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
