Dia dhuit Mark, To answer your question about size vs. OS. 2 gigs IS enough to run 8 or 9 but won't leave you much space for a lot of applications. As for OS X I believe an average installation requires about 1.2 gigs (I may be wrong but it's what my 8600 took when I put X on it). It might be better to go ahead an upgrade to a bigger hard drive before you do any of the installs and partition the drive for each operating system you wish to use. As far as a good size for the systems, it would also depend on what you plan to store on it (like MP3, video, etc). The minimums would work with the 6 gigs total you have but more space is always better. :)
Slainte, Chris (BTW: What part of Eire do you live?) On Tue, 09 October 2001, "mark mccague" wrote: > > As I've been out of the Mac loop for a while I was wondering whats a useable > amount of disk space on a mac running say os 8 or 9 or even 0sx. On a PC I > would say I need about a 20gig drive. All of the older mac's seem to have > small hard drives of 2gigs. I was wondering is this adequate? I have one > fast 2gig and one slow 4gig drive. Would it be useful to replace the 9500 > and 7300's slow 2gig drive with one or both of these? Perhaps I should > forget the old scsi stuff and look towards getting an ATA card and drive in > the future? What sort of money would one expect to pay for a ATA card for > the Mac and does it matter which ATA HD I use. I mean can I just use any ATA > drive I pull out of a PC. > > BTW my old quadra still is merrily going along with 12mb ram, 230mb hd and > no cdrom. Though my main PC is a well a PC... > > "The whims that we're weeping for our parents would be beaten for." Kate Bush - Sensual World -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! <http://www.applelinks.com>
