On 10 Mar 2005, at 20:40, RP McKay wrote:
9 on an external drive should work fine to allow dual booting still?
Nope. Afraid not.
I get rather irritated when I check the wife's iBook at the
root level and see two applications folders or system folders...but that
might just be me :)
There's no need to have two application folders except for your own convenience. OS 9 programs can be put anywhere on the disk.
It's almost always a bad idea to partition with OS X.
It used to be that in earlier OS X versions (pre 10.2) creating a dedicated
swap partition could keep the defragmentation of files down to a minimum and
possibly (depending on RAM) speed things up a bit but with the new
'optimization' process used during installs this might be no longer
true...any thoughts anyone?...I've not seen anything on this for some time
now...
10.1 was practically a beta, though. OS X uses HD space for memory paging so the more spare room the better. Really the only reason to partition is if you're running development software or something.
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