I read on LEM that you have to partition your hard drive, and that OS X has to be in the first 8GB of the drive. Now I wanted to ask is does the first partition have to be 8GB or can it be anything smaller than that?
Derek [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Derek,
It can be smaller, although it does have to be large enough for OS X. Anyware in the 2-8 gig's should be OK. If you want to boot OS 9 off a seperate partition it will also need it's partition to be inside the first 8 gigs of the drive.
The first time I installed X it was as follows: 1.5 gig for classic 5.5 gig for OS X 3 gig for third partition
This time I boot X and OS 9 off the same drive and have had no problems, however the general reccomendation is to have one OS on a partition.
Also be aware that if you use OS X's installer utility to change any existing partitions on a drive then all data on the drive is lost. I found this out the hard way when deleting the 1.5 and 5.5 gig partions and making one nice 7 gig partition. There was much wailing and gnashing of teeth....:)
So if you can backup your data to another drive or computer then do so. I now have an external hard drive just for backups.
Greville
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