I'm getting ready to install 10.1.5 on my beige G3 266. I have a new 80 GB HD and a firewire case. I was going to use this as a backup drive, but it has been suggested I use this as my main drive and load OS X on this. Will I still have the 8 GB partition restriction with FW? Has anyone done this type of installation?
I have two suggestions:
1) go for 10.2 over 10.1.5...it's definitely worth it. 10.2 is a vastly more usable system than 10.1.5 is, imo. About 20% faster, too, a premium on a low end machine like yours.
2) don't worry too much about the 8 gb limit. You have to really have a *ton* of stuff on there to start running into problems, and no way the system is ever going to use that up. On my system I have a large number of applications (Open Office, Photoshop, three big 3D modelling programs, 4 web browsers (IE, Safari, Mozilla and Camino), X11, Apple's Developers tools plus a bunch of others) and 10.2.8 and I've used only 2.9 gb of the partition...the key is putting your users directory on the larger of the partitions; that's what eats your space up: my iTunes library is 6 gb, my iPhoto library is 800 mb, etc, etc.
Moving the Users directory is relatively easy. see: <http://www.bombich.com/mactips/homedir.html>
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