Hi Listers,
Just helped my friend unpack her new I-Book. I love it and now have to get
one for myself! She wants me to partition it for her - but I'm not sure just
where the OS's have to be installed. It's the 20GB HD and I want to make at
least 4 partitions. I want to keep the OSX on it's own partition. And then
put OS 9.1 on it's own partition. She will mostly always be using OS9.1 for
everything she does, and use OSX just to play around with. I remember
reading that OSX must be on the first 8 GB of the drive (or something like
that). But is the first partition you make considered the first part of the
HD? And does that mean you could make partition 1= 4GB and make the 2nd
partition say 4GB - and then install 9.1 on partition 1 and OSX on partition
2? OSX would then be on the first 8GB but on the second part of the first
8GB. Would this be OK? Could someone please send me specifics on where to
install these two OS's and the size the partitions for them should be. I have
partitioned a HD before so now how to do it - but just not sure of where to
put the diff. OS's. And then what confuses me is - once they are partitioned
- when you install software (like Word, Photoshop,etc) and put those programs
on yet another partition (which I think you can do) - how does the install
know which OS System folder to put it's extensions into? How does it know
that you want them put into the OS 9.1 system folder? I'm only confused
because you have two diff. OS on the same computer!
Please email directly if you can as I want to get this I-Book partitioned
within the next 48 hrs, and need advice. Thanks.
Pat
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