I have two questions:
1) Not to challenge, but I read in the Levitus & Brisbin
book titled Answers as folos:
"If you have a large drive (more than 2GB), partitioning it
is a good way to organize your stuff, and can acctually
save space. Under Mac OS Standard format, a file takes up
more space on a large drive than it does on a 1GB or
smaller disk. Partitioning a big drive keeps file sizes
down by creating several volumes from a single disk."
2) I have my iMac 40GB drive partitioned and would like
to replace Jaguar with Panther on one of the partitions
which is 10GB in size. Since Panther is such a large
"upgrade," I would think that erasing and installing would
be less buggy. But step by step, how do you erase a
partition? You don't have to boot into it again? Hard to
understand the details. Thanks for explaining.
MarJo
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 20:26:43 -0400
Mary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 4:33 PM -0700 10/10/03, Ed Snyder wrote:
>
> >I just put my order in for OS X 10.3. Does anyone know
> if I can initialize only one partition on my HD and
> install 10.3 where I've been running 10.2?
> >I really don't want to reinitialize the whole HD.
>
> You can erase a partition and install whatever on it. But
> no, initialization is done when the drive is set up and
> applies to the entire drive.
>
> No need to initialize the drive in order to install
> Panther, ya know. Can just be installed on top of Jag,
> yes?
>
> One thing tho'. So, as it is, you have your 6 Gig drive
> partitioned, with Jag on one partition? Reason for that?
> I ask because Jag (and maybe even moreso, Panther) could
> use all the HD space you've got.
>
> Mary
>
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