On 10/5/2003 11:36, Susan Chapman wrote >Hi everyone, > >Ok I need to know what the next right move is for this situation and I know >you guys will be able to help me :) > >I have a Beige G3 Desktop...I had just the original 4 GB hard drive in here. >I bought a new 60 GB hard drive and Rob K. helped me install it and >partition the new drive. I have OS X on a small portion and at first there >was no system on the larger half and I could use that portion as hard drive >space no matter how I booted ( I still have the original 4 GB in here too). >Then I installed OS 9.2.2 on the larger new partition and now I can't see it >from the old drive-I can only see it when I boot from the OS X partition and >I can't boot from it either. I just tried and it defaulted to my old HD.
How small is the first partition? I think there is a limit in the old Beige G3s that the system has to be installed in the first 9GB of the disk. So... if the big partition is first, then this could explain your problems. Bill | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be October 26. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>.
