On Saturday, October 12, 2002, at 08:48 PM, Tom wrote: > I won't be buying a hard drive, I am not a gear addict, I > just want this nice machine to run even nicer :-) > <snip> > What is the minimum size partition X will run smoothly on? You already have plenty of memory, therefore I would really recommend getting a larger disk - especially if you plan on using this as your main machine and for fun.
Although Jaguar may not eat up a lot of disk space, all the apps (mail, itunes, imovie, etc) will store data in home/Library - which by default is in the same partition as Jaguar. In fact, everything is basically in the same partition as Jaguar by default. Jaguar has to be installed on the first partition and that maximum size is 8GB (1024=1K) - and I recommend going for max if you are not familiar with unix commands such as symbolic links. I got tired of looking of looking through preferences of different apps so I just copied everything in my account home directory to the second partition (the remainder of the my 120GB disk), moved the default directories out of the way, and created symbolic links of these defaults to the actual directories on the larger second partition (many years ago I used to be a sysadmin of a 120 node unix environment and used to do all kinds of neat tricks which I had forgotten about since my office standardized everything on MS-Win 10yrs ago). I would be interested in hearing how other people have got around this type of stuff. - I don't assume my way is the best way. -LD -- The iMac List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus Color 580 Printers - new at $69 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> iMac List info: <http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:imac-list@;mail.maclaunch.com> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:imac-list-off@;mail.maclaunch.com> For digest mode, email: <mailto:imac-list-digest@;mail.maclaunch.com> Subscription questions: <mailto:listmom@;lemlists.com> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/imac-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
