On May 14, 9:33 pm, steve roche <[email protected]> wrote: > Me again-- >
> ... I had this question, which may relate to the > slow, unresponsive PISMO problem: > > Last year my 30 gig HD died, and I bought a (nice!) new Seagate 80 gig HD. I > installed it, > and was instructed to partition it. I decided to partition it into two > sections. WRONG. > I was told they were too large.. try again. Okay, four sections. WRONG. Okay, > how about > 8 partitions...Wrong, again. I settled on 10 partitions. In my Finder, there > are 10 hard drives, > all called 'Untitled." (I finally got them off my desktop!). This is very strange. You must have had a beta test installer of something with a buggy partitioner ? What OS were you using to format the drive ? Better try it with a different install disk. > > Really, I'd like to re-install a new OS and get rid of all this nonsense. > I've seen much bigger HD's and they did not have to be partitioned down into > tiny bits. > > And so many partitions-- a slow-down? I like two partitions one for data and one for the OS. Especially if you run multiple OS, then not mounting the other OS partition(s) so they don't accidentally get mixed up (also there may be issues around journaling then). [of course then you have additional partitions for each extra OS] You can install Linux, NetBSD, OSX Tiger, OS9.2.2 (9.1 or higher) on the Pismo. I installed 10.4.1 and it was very buggy, I recommend trying to get the last version of Tiger DVD rather than updating one of the earlier ones if possible. You can also get an cable to connect the laptop hard drive in your sawtooth as a 2nd drive. That might be a good way to check that the drive is not defective. You could check your install media then also in there (one at a time), if both work then probably you have a hardware problem in the pismo (might want to check this before hassling more and while the drive is in the Sawtooth you can copy your stuff too). Another option is to hook up the pismo to the sawtooth in Firewire target mode and you can do both the format and the install on to it sitting at the sawtooth then. I have had 10 partitions (2xLinux + swap + Jaguar + Panther + OS9 + 2xBasilisk + 2xData) -- and no slowing down. Brian -- 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] To leave 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/
