Install on 8 Gigs or less primary. |
August, 30, 2002 7:10 PM |
L.Sargent4 |
Now I just got an email that says something about OS X needing to be installed in under 8 gig of hard drive space for the primary partition. Seeing my 20 gig harddrive is split in two partitions should I repartition and try again? Does anyone know what this under 8 gigs thing is all about before I go and back up my entire harddrive. Will this apply to OS 10.2 as well? Lee |
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RE: Install on 8 Gigs or less primary. |
September, 02, 2002 11:02 PM |
OSXGuru |
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Yes, it appears that the Mac OS X 10.2 Installer enforces the 8 GB limitation as well (when installing onto an ATA drive). The whole story is a little longer--the limitation does not apply if the ATA card is pretending to be a SCSI card. (The Sonnet Tempo/66 does this, among others). Also, the underlying problem probably only applies to the native ATA bus on the Beige G3s, but the Mac OS X Installer enforces the restriction on all "Old World" machines. So you may well need to reformat so that your first partition is under 8 GB in size. |
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