On Jan 23, 2010, at 4:40 PM, Kris Tilford wrote:
On Jan 23, 2010, at 6:26 PM, JOHN CARMONNE wrote:
I have a Wallstreet 300 with a 20GB Toshiba drive with 2
partitions 1 Tiger and 1 OS9. I need to ad a 3rd partition for 8.6
can I add one without initializing?
What is the reason for needing OS 8.6? I've heard that there are
supposedly some applications that won't run in OS 9 that do run in
8.6, but I am honestly skeptical of this idea.
As for your question, I believe you're in a sticky situation. It
can be done in Leopard using Disk Utility, but you'd need to remove
the HD and mount it on a Leopard Mac. In Tiger Disk Utility will
not non-destructively repartition, so you'd need a 3rd party
partition program such as iPartition. It can also be done in OS 9
using FWB Partition Toolkit. I'd recommend NOT going this route.
I recommend NOT installing OS 8.6 unless there is some extremely
compelling reason. Often tweaking extensions can give you the
capability you're seeking, and in my experience all OS 8.6
extensions will load and work in OS 9.x as long as the
corresponding OS 9 versions are removed so that there isn't any
conflict.
Thanks as usual Kris This is the machine you helped me get XPostfacto
on.
My reason for wanting an 8.6 partition is it was my sons first G3
PowerBook and for legacy reasons we would like to boot the original
machine from time to time , Otherwise the extension transfer to OS9
would be OK.
It's not the end of the world to reparation I just was a little lazy
today, and always like to learn new tricks.
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