OSX wants/needs to be installed in the first 8gb of the drive. Here is the partition that I have:
OSX Classic Apps (Where most apps go) Files Swap... There is a way to install OSX on just on system and make a image of it. I have seen it on www.macosxhints.com. Here is another place to look: http://homepage.mac.com/remsoftware/applescript.html If you like I have a PDF that I got sometime back that talks about the install and partitions. Terry On Friday, November 1, 2002, at 09:51 AM, Beth Ernst wrote: > Hi gang, I'm in need of some advice. We just purchased 5 new G4s. I'm > wanting to make separate partitions for OS 9 and OS X. I've tried > reformatting the drive and on my initial attempt the machine appeared > to lock up (that was yesterday afternoon, I thought maybe it was just > taking a while, but I came in this morning and it was still sitting > there. So I rebooted and tried again and was able to get my > partitions. I then proceeded to attempt to install OS X. I received an > error message that the installation failed. When I tried again, the > partition I was attempting to install on didn't mount. At this point > I'm thinking maybe I need to install OS 9 first so I'm going to try > that, but can someone tell me the recommended steps for doing this? I > had some info from Apple's site, but it was pre-Jaguar. > > Thanks! > Beth > > > The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be November 26 > For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of > activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>. > > The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be November 26 For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>.
