OSX on more than one drive |
November, 28, 2002 4:07 PM |
swoup1213 |
Powermac 9500, G3 400 I'm currently running OSX on a 8 gig partition of a 36 gig internal drive. On the other 22 gig partition I have OS 9.2. I also have an 18 gig internal drive with OS 9.1. My Question: Would it be possible and wise to install another OSX system on the same drive as OS 9.2, thinking that I can perform diagnositcs on my main OSX drive since attempting to do so is not effective being that it's my start-up drive of OSX. I was concerned about the rule about having OSX on the 1st 8 gigs of the drive. Both of my internal drives are SCSI. Comments? Thanks Keith |
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RE: OSX on more than one drive |
December, 10, 2002 7:31 PM |
OSXGuru |
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If your drives are SCSI, then the 8 GB rule doesn't apply. |
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RE: OSX on more than one drive |
November, 29, 2002 5:16 AM |
gchron |
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Oh something else swoup1213. If your disk is shown as IDE you will probably must make the disk have two 8 GB partitions and one with 8 and the other with 22 as the OSX needs 8 GB if it is in IDE disks. Exept if you have a new G4. |
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RE: OSX on more than one drive |
November, 29, 2002 5:10 AM |
gchron |
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This is the right command. You are right powderhaus. But exept that there is not a way to optimize the disk performance exept restarting from OS 9 or an orther OS Disk. So I personally have the comfiguration of swoup1213. So I can run the Norton disk optimizer and optimize my hard disk. |
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RE: OSX on more than one drive |
November, 28, 2002 8:28 PM |
powderhaus |
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If your only doing it for diagnostics, dont bother. Start up in single users mode, hold cmd s right away after restart or enable it through XPF. The when it has finished booting you will be in unix with no gui. then type /sbin/fsck -y this will run the check on your start up disk. (i think that this is the right command but i may be wrong so after the boot there should be instructions for this above the command line) If you have other reasons for doing this, it should be fine. |