On May 14, 9:33 pm, steve roche <[email protected]> wrote:
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!).
I think something is wrong. This behavior is what happens when you
have the OS X 1st 8 GB partition limitation on your Mac. The Pismo is
the first G3 laptop to NOT have this limitation, so it should take the
whole 80 GB HD as one partition and install normally. If a laptop such
as the Lombard, Wallstreet, Mainstreet, or Kanga is partitioned it
will give the same message you got until there is a "valid"
installation partition within the 1st 8 GB of the HD. In your case,
you finally had to partition the 80 GB drive into 10 partitions so
that the 1st partition was smaller than 8 GB and completely within the
1st 8 GB of the HD.
My conclusion would be that your laptop isn't a Pismo. Are you certain
it's a Pismo, the Lombard looks identical but is missing the Firewire
port (the Firewire port is a sure "tell" since the Pismo was the 1st
Mac laptop with a Firewire port). If it is a Pismo, have you done all
the firmware updates. It should be v. 4.1.8 which you can find in
System Profiler. If not, upgrade the firmware. You need to boot OS 9.x
to upgrade the firmware, it can't be done from OS X.
I have filled up almost ONE of them. (7.1 gigs?).
This would slow down your computer to a crawl. OS X require LOTS of
freespace on the boot partition. Jaguar & Panther require 2GB
freespace and Tiger & Leopard require 4GB freespace MINIMUM as
recommended by Apple. Once you get down to less than 1GB freespace OS
X slows to a crawl.
You need to start over again, and get one single 80GB partition and
install onto it normally. If your Mac isn't a Pismo and has the 1st
8GB partition limitation, you can use XPostFacto 4 (XPF4) to enable
booting beyond the 1st 8GB partition. In this case you'd need one
7.99GB or less within the 1st 8GB and then the remainder as a 70GB
partition. It's a little complicated to setup, and I won't explain the
whole process unless you can confirm your laptop isn't a Pismo and has
this 1st 8GB limitation.
Really, I'd like to re-install a new OS and get rid of all this
nonsense.
Great idea.
And so many partitions-- a slow-down?
No, it's NOT the # of partitions, it the amount of freespace available
on the boot partition. You filled up your 7.1 GB partition the very
instant you installed, and it has been too full from the beginning.
Get rid of the nonsense and reinstall onto the largest possible
partition you can. If you have a "real" Pismo it should allow any OS X
installation onto the full 80GB HD. If your Mac is a Lombard or some
other model that has the 1st 8GB limitation, again, using XPF4 you can
boot virtually the whole 80GB, so it's basically the same for either,
only the non-Pismo is harder to do.
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