On May 29, 2009, at 4:29 AM, MaGioZal wrote: > Where can I get this program? Is it free? Does it work under 10.4?
<http://monolingual.sourceforge.net/> > I’m asking this because sometimes I feel a little squeezed on a 7.7GB > partition (I’ve got a Beige G3). You don't need to be squeezed onto that tiny 7.7GB partition. Clone your System over to your largest partition outside the 1st 8GB partition, but still within the 128GB limit. If your HD is larger that 128GB you can also use the whole thing, but you need to either use the Intech Hi-Cap extension or do the LBA48 open firmware hack. Once you've cloned your OS onto the larger partition, use XPostFacto 4.0 and select the larger partition OS at the boot System, and any partition within the 1st 8 GB as the "helper disk" and you can now boot from the big partition. The "helper disk" partition can be small, as little as perhaps 100MB, but if you don't have a small dedicated "helper" partition, you can also just use your 7.7GB partition as the "helper". You should always boot the largest available partition. My Beige has a 160GB HD partitioned as 1GB, 7GB (both within the 1st 8GB), 112GB (at the EXACT 128GB limit of 131,072MB) and the remaining 22GB outside the 128GB limit. I have OS 9.1 on the 1GB partition which I also use as the "helper" to boot OS 10.4.11 from the largest 112GB partition. I also have OS 10.4.11 on the 7GB partition so I can boot OS X "directly" without a "helper" as a just-in-case "repair volume" that has DiskWarrior and other utilities for fixing the large partition should anything go wrong. I use the 22GB as storage space only. For many years I booted from Firewire external HDs on the Beige using the XPF Helper Disk boot method. This has the advantage of being able to use large HDs without the 1st 8GB limit. I booted a 250GB Firewire external HD regularly until I needed it for my Mini. If you need a larger HD to boot from, I'd recommend booting from an external Firewire HD using the Helper Disk boot method. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
