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Title: Attention TS - S.W.A.T. team
Post by: george on February 27, 2003, 03:23:00 PM
Hi Kelly,Jennie,Harv,Beacher et al,
I have now managed get my second machine a G3 up and running on a 4GB SCSI HD 256ram with OS9 I have also managed to initialize a 12.7GB IDE HD on which I would like to install OS X but when I reach the stage of nominating this  drive I am informed that this is not possible it lists some  gobbledygook about 8mb of space required and then I'm lost.
Is there some obviously  simple procedure that I am missing?
George
Title: Attention TS - S.W.A.T. team
Post by: bobw on February 27, 2003, 06:14:00 PM
OS X needs to be installed on the first 8Gb partition on your model machine. Format and partition that drive, make the first partition 8Gb or smaller and it will install.
Title: Attention TS - S.W.A.T. team
Post by: george on February 27, 2003, 06:42:00 PM
Bobw, I can see what you are saying but do not know how to format and partition I thought that initializing was the same as formatting (obviously not)and when I partitioned the drive it showed up as two separate drives.....as you can see Mac procedure is all very new to me.Can you walk/talk me through the procedure?
George
Title: Attention TS - S.W.A.T. team
Post by: gapstr on February 27, 2003, 07:31:00 PM
quote:
Originally posted by george:
Bobw, I can see what you are saying but do not know how to format and partition I thought that initializing was the same as formatting (obviously not)and when I partitioned the drive it showed up as two separate drives.....as you can see Mac procedure is all very new to me.Can you walk/talk me through the procedure?
George
OK, you've successfully partitioned the drive. That means you've also initialized/formatted it. Is the partition you trying to install OS X on within the first 8 GB of that hard drive? If not, try installing on the other partition if it's big enough.

A.G.
Title: Attention TS - S.W.A.T. team
Post by: kelly on February 27, 2003, 07:56:00 PM
Hey George.  

Have you done this stuff on a PC? macs are similar, only different.

This is using it in OS 9.x Launch Drive Setup.

 

Click on the Custom Setp Button. That's where you Partition.

 

Good explanation here.

http://www.sciencequest.org/support/comput...rive_setup.html
Title: Attention TS - S.W.A.T. team
Post by: kelly on February 28, 2003, 11:07:00 PM
George. Forgot to mention.  

You'll probably want to choose Mac OS Extended to keep down the Allocation Block size.
Title: Attention TS - S.W.A.T. team
Post by: george on February 28, 2003, 01:42:00 PM
Kelly,
I downloaded the link suggested by you and BINGO I have (apart from my new G4) another two machines up and running, one is the G3 and the other is a Performa 6400/200. My thanks to you and the other band of dedicated TSers for their help and most of all their patience.
A special thanks to Iain for his e-mail    contribution.
George.
ps
Three machines     what do I do next I ask myself?