On Feb 19, 2010, at 5:26 PM, deadwinter wrote: > Oh, I used a Quadra in school. I haven't forgotten (or forgiven) > System 7. > > Anyway, the point (if there is one) of this G3 exercise of mine is to > squeeze performance out of this poor thing. I want to establish if > the way it's setup now would make a difference, performance wise. To > be clear, I don't use Classic from 10.2. I set it up to boot from the > OS9 system folder. Would this be less performant(sic?) than having > its own partition, or is the real difference that OS9 could take the > whole disk with it if it crashed? > > ...and on the heels of that, another question. Does this sort of > thing make a difference when you're installing, say, a PCI FW/USB > card? > > -carlos > > On Feb 19, 12:18 pm, Robert MacLeay <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Feb 18, 11:41 pm, deadwinter <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I thought I had a partition for 10.2 and another for OS9.2, but upon >>> closer examination it looks like I have OS 10.2 and a folder labeled >>> OS9 applications, OS 9 System, etc. In the "Startup Disk" control >>> panel, I can choose that the system use the OS9 system folder, which >>> will make it boot into OS9, and viceversa. >> >>> Can someone enlighten me as to why the previous owner would run it >>> like this as opposed to there being two separate partitions? Do I >>> gain anything? Lose anything? >> >> As Bruce said, what you have is the default configuration for using >> Classic mode inside of OSX. Its fine as-is if that is what you are >> doing. >> >> If you REALLY, literally mean booting into OS 9, I would strongly >> suggest adding it to a separate partition and booting off the separate >> partition. >> >> The reason for this is that when OS 9 crashes, it has a tendency to >> mess up not only its own preferences, but the directory structure of >> the boot disk. This latter is not at all good for rebooting under >> either OS later on. You are far better off with an expendable >> partition that can easily be restored by cloning from a backup. >> >> Back in the Bad Old Days when I was using the Mac OS for productivity, >> I would always partition the disk and keep my data files on a separate >> partition. That way, when I crashed only the boot partition would be >> messed up; my data files were almost always safe. >> >> We are spoiled by the fantastic reliability of OSX, and tend to forget >> how often application crashes would bring down the older Mac systems.
For what it's worth I've been dual booting 3 G3 iMacs since 2001 and never had a problem with 9.2.2 doing anything other than run properly and since Tiger "it don't get no better than that" combo. But that's just me:-) John Carmonne Yorba Linda USA -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, 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 [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
