On 11 Oct 2004, at 16:27, Dan Stewart wrote:
From: Steve Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I could be wrong about this(and probably am), but I thought that installing any version of X on older machines requires that the whole OS fits in an 8 Gig partition (or the first 8 gigs of a volume larger than 8 gigs... which I think is risky.)
The 8 gig limitation only applies to IDE drives on old machines. SCSI is unaffected. I personally have 10.3.5 on an S900 on greater than 8 gig SCSI drives. My S900 is all SCSI just to eliminate this issue.
Some PCI IDE cards allow attached drives to be seen as SCSI by the system so there is no partition limit.
I found that I had to use XPF's Throttle function when trying to boot OSX from a "proper" SCSI drive, no problem with an IDE drive and an Acarde PCI card.
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Derryck
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