I used t use XPF on my old Beige G3 and it was challenging, but fun
to get it up and running. I checked on the 8GB restriction and found
this in my old notes:
What's New
* Avoids the mis-application of the 8 GB limit on "Old World"
machines by the Mac OS X Installer.
When I failed to pay attention to the "limit" XPF would not install
anything until the limit was set properly. Jeremiah should give XPF
a try and not worry about corrupting his HD.
Larry Eden
On Jan 12, 2011, at 5:18 PM, Jeremiah Stevens wrote:
Thanks for the tip! I'll boot up the ol' iMac and install
XpostFacto after dinner and get with everyone with a progress
report.
No! Bruce was right, the Beige has the 1st 8GB restriction, you may
corrupt the HD if you do this!@!
In order to make this work, you'd either need to add a partition
within the 1st 8GB or boot the HD from an external Firewire
enclosure (only the Beige internal ATA bus has this crazy 1st 8GB
restriction).
There are ways to "non-destructively" add a partition, but these
generally require at least Leopard or Snow Leopard to
non-destructively add a partition using Disk Utility. There are
other programs such as iPartition that can add a partition to a
active HD.
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