>I'm attempting to upgrade a 9600/G3/350 from X.1.5 to X.2. > >The X.2 installer won't allow me to select my X.1.5 partition, >complaining that it's not completely within the first 8 gb of the drive. >even though it is the first partition on an 80 gb drive, and is exactly >8 gb (8192 mb) in size. Obviously I didn't have this problem with >earlier versions of OSX (which also need to reside in the first 8 gb on >OldWorld machines), so why is this happening now? > >Is there any way around this, or do I have to reformat the drive so that >the first partition is less than exactly 8 gb?
It's far from a sure thing at this point that this is an issue with all old world Macs. It is possible that it is. The Beige G3 is the only Official problem machine. However it is the one OLD World Mac that Apple supports. They may have put some check in that puts all old world Macs in the the same class for installing. There are two ways of measuring GB's for drive sizes. The one which drive makers use is 1000mb = 1GB This lets them list there drives as larger then they would be at the more correct 1024mb= 1gb So to be on the safe side if you need the partition to be 8 GB or smaller...I'd use 8000mb = 8 GB If I had more time I'd do an install to see if this is also true with the Sonnet/Acard PCI cards which are seen as SCSI drives in both OS 8/9.x and OSX. Anyone else do an install on a larger then 8 GB partition or a partition which is beyond the 8 GB mark? I can say that when installing it was possible for me to chose a beyond 8 GB partition. I clicked on the other partitions just to see and it excepted them for installing. This was with a Sonnet/Acard ATA 66 card on a UMAX J700 machine. Will S -- Unsupported OS X is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Unsupported OS X list info <http://lowendmac.com/lists/unsupported.html> 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/unsupportedosx%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
