Re: Hard drive partitioning

[Andrew J. Yon III]

I have found that in circumstances such as yours. Setting up my BGE 400 
G3 and a 40 GB HD with 3 partitions worked best for me. Make the first 
partition something just shy of 8 GB ( like 7.94 GB) and install OSX on 
it. Create the second partition with about two thirds of the remaining 
space. Put OS 9.2 and VPC on the second partition and 8.6 on the third. 
 I have set up several BGE's this way and have found that it is best 
not to have any third party items installed (USB cards,      memory in 
excess of 128 MB , etc.) in the computer until all OS's are installed 
and have been booted at least once.  BGE's appear, to me, to have the 
broadest of symptoms during all of this type procedures over any other 
model. maybe , it is due to the many different configurations that were 
available.

my Beige ( now being used by my wife for her email machine) originated  
as a rev A  233. I replaced the rev A rom with a rev C, added more 
memory to the Max of 768 MB, Put in two HD's one 60 GB for storage and 
one 40 GB set up as mentioned above, a USB 4 port PCI card , a Sony 
CDRW (IDE), a new PRAM Battery, and a Logitech wheel mouse two button 
and one under the wheel. I still sneak in and use it every once in a 
while. I loved using that machjne   and still do even tho I moved to a 
1.25 DP and a 1 GHZ 17 Ti book.

I hope this helps you in some way.

Andy3

On Saturday, July 12, 2003, at 05:00 PM, Ted Burford wrote:
I bought a 40 gb hard drive and I have a question about partitioning 
it.

I will be running OS X and OS 9.2 and maybe OS 8.6.  DO I need to keep 
the OS X partition to 8 gb?  Should I make 3 partitions?  I will also 
want to run Virtual PC win 98.

This will be in a beige G3 333 mhz tower.

Ted


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