Firewire drive with XPF OSX.2.4 |
March, 04, 2003 10:44 AM |
williamrah |
This is probably a simple question, but to save a lot of time sorting through the threads, could anyone tell me if it's possible to install a bootable OSX 10.2.4 partition on an 80Gig firewire drive? The drive is currently partitioned in to (2) 37 Gig volumes, which mount and function well as storage under XPF OSX on my 8500. I've tried CCC with one of the firewire volumes as the target with no success, and have read threads making some reference to maximum 8 Gig partition for OSX. Is this the problem with using CCC here? Is there any useful reason to install an OSX partition on the firewire drive if it's not bootable? |
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RE: Firewire drive with XPF OSX.2.4 |
March, 04, 2003 6:52 PM |
powderhaus |
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If you are asking if the 8gig limit applies to Firewire enclosures, i don't know for sure but i would think not. If you are asking if you take the drive out of the case will the 8gig limit apply, yes hope that helps. |
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RE: Firewire drive with XPF OSX.2.4 |
March, 04, 2003 6:19 PM |
williamrah |
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Thanks.......this helps I guess it's an academic point if the firewire drive won't boot, but is there a maximum partition size for an IDE boot volume? And would this pertain to the IDE drive in my Firewire/USB case? (just in case Ryan solves the firewire boot problem on older machines, or I resort to using a pci card with IDE drives) |
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RE: Firewire drive with XPF OSX.2.4 |
March, 04, 2003 2:12 PM |
powderhaus |
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He said it boots but it is so unstable or only supports limited hardware so he has said it is almost useless so he is trying to fix it and then will put version 3.0 out. but lucky you you signed up for the form you get to use the beta when he puts it out (i can't wait, a 2GB drive doesn't cut it.) |
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RE: Firewire drive with XPF OSX.2.4 |
March, 04, 2003 1:53 PM |
mjoecups358 |
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Firewire will not boot on old world machines. Since these systems did not have FW, the boot process does not know enough to go look for them.... Ryan in working on a way to make XPF bootable from FW under the 3.0 version, this would envolve a hand off of the boot process from another drive. You can install OSX onto a FW drive using XPF, and that drive will be bootable on compatible hardware (ie newer then the yikes G4). On older hardware, you have to boot from a connected SCSI or IDE drive. (USB or FW will not work). Marty |
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