On Sunday, Sep 29, 2002, at 13:10 Europe/London, R/K Allen wrote:
> I just added a second hard drive to my G3/300 rev 3 e/w 320 MB RAM, > OS 8.6, 7.8 GB original hard drive, ZIP and CD-ROM. > > The new drive is a Maxtor 60 GB 7200 rpm. To make room I moved the > ZIP and CD drives down to the bottom positions and left the floppy at > the top position. I wanted to retain the original drive as is for > normal use while playing and learning OS 10.2. It take it by that it's a Mini-Tower then :). > The new drive was formatted to HFS+ into four partitions. This may > have been overkill. Not at all. In OS X Partitions are good. Firstly you probably realise your 10.2 partition has to be inside the first 8GB on a beige machine. Also the smaller your OS X boot partition is the faster OS X restarts in the very rare even that it should crash. On my hard disk in my B&W G3/400 (40GB) I have a 7.4GB partition for OS X and apps not out of necessity just cause I don't need any more. I have a separate partition of 2.1GB for OS 9 and any Classic apps. The rest of the drive is split into 2 14GB chunks, one for games and MP3s and the other for storing internet downloads and junk. > We will see. 7.9 GB for OS 10.2, 5.1 GB for OS > 9.2.2, 10 GB for applications, and the remainder for data. If you still use 8.6 on a daily basis you might eventually need 5GB for all your Classic apps I suppose but you may find at least some can be replaced. I fortunately never bought any Mac Apps until they came out for OS X so I have a full suite (apart from Photoshop 5.5 'cause PS7 took so damn long :) ). That's the advantage of starting late :). > Installed OS 10.2. It seemed to go well and booted OK. Got a lot to > learn. Spend a least 2 hours a day in OS X. It's not that bad once you get used to it's quirks, just a bit different. > Installed OS 9.2.2. For some reason in OS 9.2.2. the monitor will not > wake from sleep. A hard startup will do it. Sleep and wake works OK > in OS 8.6. Any suggestions? Weird. Are you using an Apple monitor? > I will stick to OS 8.6 for a working system for a bit longer as I > don't want to confuse the other user (my wife) until I am more able > to deal with her queries. > So, in conclusion, it went well. I wish you well with 10.2, hope someone here can sort out -- Mark Benson AIM - SilValleyPirate Visit FlatPackMacs online: <http://fpm.gotdns.com> Mac LC Central -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
