Partitions OS 9.2.2/ OSX

[ADSR]

Hi,

Is there some precautions whith  a partition  9.2.2 and another whith OSX ....
What about norton file saver on the 9.2.2 partition beeing  non compatible osx  , dw,  etc...?
Rebuilding desktop from one or the other partition?

Thanks

GR

[antony]

Just make sure the 9.2.2 partition can be read by OS 9.2.2, and probably you don't want to let OS 9.2.2 to access your OS X partitions.

If you have more than one Mac, I'd suggest leave a Mac just for OS 9.2.2, and use another for OS X.

[krissel]

All of my drives are partitioned with an OS 9.2 volume.  You want to give the X partition the first partition (fastest)  on the drive and obviously the largest.  Rebuilding the desktop is best done within 9 but to tell the truth you will find yourself in X so much that you probably won't go back to 9 unless absolutely necessary after awhile. It is helpful though to have a separate partition with 9 for the occasional application that won't run under Classic and keeping a full 9.2 volume with all the extra third party stuff may be more convenient.

Just don't play around with X stuff while you are booted to 9. You can see the files and move things that you wouldn't normally be able to move while in X, so you could make your X volume non-bootable by moving the wrong file.

As to Norton, I wouldn't bother with Filesaver. You could use Disk Doctor on 9 only from the CD or from a second 9 install but don't touch it in X or use it on X. It could trash your install completely.

[Gregg]

What was that stuff about one or the other being installed on the first 8GB of your hard drive? My memory is obviously fuzzy...

[Texas Mac Man]

QUOTE(Gregg @ Jun 15 2007, 08:32 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

What was that stuff about one or the other being installed on the first 8GB of your hard drive? My memory is obviously fuzzy...

The 8 GB partition requirement applied to older Macs. See
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25249

Cheers, Tom

[Gregg]

Thanks, Tom....

This only happens with certain Macintosh computers that originally had a hard drive smaller than 8 GB, and that have now been upgraded with a hard drive larger than 8 GB. These computers include:
iMac 233 MHz

iMac 266 MHz

iMac 333 MHz

Power Macintosh G3 Desktop

That's why I knew of this. It applies to me - but I'll never put OSX on my G3 Desktop. It'll be a new one...