Re: OSXhints: A real workaround for the 8GB limit on older Macs

[Adam Thayer]

Yes, definitely interesting, but be aware you still need a partition  
that you boot from to "help" and that needs to be in the first 8GB of  
the drive, and it consumes space away from your OS X partition. Before  
you do something like this, ask yourself if the work you have to put  
into maintaining a system like this is worth it. The two big things  
that don't make it worth it (to me) are:

- Must resync the helper disk for every minor update that requires a  
reboot, or you will not be able to boot safely into X, experience  
instability, or simply not have the update running.

- Must do the backup/install/restore shuffle on any major update. This  
is a pain going through all the steps once, but having to do it every  
18 months?

My advice? Don't expect to store all your stuff in your Home folder. I  
use multiple partitions like I did in OS 9. Games, movies, music don't  
reside on the main partition, but on others. Saves me the headache of  
having to muck with the partitions and simply do backups when needed.

Regards,
Adam Thayer
On Jul 6, 2004, at 4:23 AM, Mikael Byström wrote:
Did you guys see this one?
"I've worked out a work-around for the 8GB limit for system volumes on
older Macintoshes. I'm writing this on a Beige G3 with a 27G system
partition, and I'm confident that it won't be rendered unbootable by
system updates or disk activity (the reason for the 8GB limit in the
first place). Most of the credit goes to Ryan Remple and his XPostFacto
tool for installing OS X on older, unsupported Macs -- the 'trick'  
relies
on using XPF's 'Helper Disk' feature. I haven't tried it, but I think  
it
should also work on Macintoshes that are affected by the 8GB limitation
but wouldn't otherwise need XPostFacto...........
.........................."
<http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php? 
story=20040604012923908&mode=print>

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