On Tuesday, November 4, 2003, at 11:36 PM, Bonnie wrote:
Hi. I would like to try to install 10.1 on my beige 266. I currently have a
5 GB partition that has OS 9.2 on it. Can I install 10.1 on this partition
also?
Yes, you can install it on the partition with 9.2.
5GB is a bit small, but perfectly doable.
When you do the install, make sure you choose the custom options and install only the language(s) you actually use. The default install sticks in about 3gb of localization files you probably don't need unless you're on of those 'I know 27 languages, three of them dead, five I invented myself' polyglots.
Another space saver on the 8-GB limited models is to move the Users directory to another partition, by following the instructions at <http://www.bombich.com> which also has 'Delocalizer' a program to remove all those localization files if you just go with the default install.
Another good tip: Move your existing 9.2 install to the larger partition, as well as the OS 9 apps you have.
Then install a stock 9.2 version on the first partition, for use with the Classic environment with OSX. This preserves your existing OS 9 installation intact, in case you need to boot back to a familiar situation, and make troubleshooting Classic far less difficult or likely, in fact. Most problems with Classic can be traced to odd extensions.
After doing the above on my system, which has lots of apps installed (93 items in my Applications folder, including some pretty big ones like Photoshop and Open Office), plus the developer tools disk (minus most of the docs), my boot partition has 2.95 gb used out of 7.98. That would still fit in your system.
Moving the Users folder is the big one; that's MANY gigabytes in size.
Final suggestion:
Ditch 10.1; get 10.2 instead. 10.2 is about 20% faster on any system than 10.1 is, printing works, it does not crash, and many things were vastly improved. 10.1 was still a beta. You could use it for daily use, but there were hassles. 10.2 is a solid daily pounding on it day in day out OS. With 10.1 I was still booting into OS 9 regularly. After I installed 10.2 I haven't looked back once. The only time I've booted into OS9 since installing 10.2 was when my 10.2 install was messed up (my fault), and I booted from my OS 9 cd to see if I'd lost the boot partition or what. (An archive and re-install fixed everything...another reason to go to 10.2, 10.1 didn't have that option)
If this is not a good idea, is there a way to divide another partition
(20 GB) so I have a partition with the required 8 GB. Can I do this without
reformatting the entire drive? How would I make the new partition the first
partition? Right now the 5 GB with 9.2 is the first partition.
The first partition is a physical thing, the first partition set on the disk. To change your first partition, you would have to reformat your entire drive.
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