>Hi Listers,
>Just helped my friend unpack her new I-Book. I love it and now have to get
>one for myself! She wants me to partition it for her - but I'm not sure just
>where the OS's have to be installed. It's the 20GB HD and I want to make at
>least 4 partitions. I want to keep the OSX on it's own partition. And then
>put OS 9.1 on it's own partition. She will mostly always be using OS9.1 for
>everything she does, and use OSX just to play around with. I remember
>reading that OSX must be on the first 8 GB of the drive (or something like
>that). But is the first partition you make considered the first part of the
>HD? And does that mean you could make partition 1= 4GB and make the 2nd
>partition say 4GB - and then install 9.1 on partition 1 and OSX on partition
>2? OSX would then be on the first 8GB but on the second part of the first
>8GB. Would this be OK? Could someone please send me specifics on where to
>install these two OS's and the size the partitions for them should be. I have
>partitioned a HD before so now how to do it - but just not sure of where to
>put the diff. OS's. And then what confuses me is - once they are partitioned
>- when you install software (like Word, Photoshop,etc) and put those programs
>on yet another partition (which I think you can do) - how does the install
>know which OS System folder to put it's extensions into? How does it know
>that you want them put into the OS 9.1 system folder? I'm only confused
>because you have two diff. OS on the same computer!
>Please email directly if you can as I want to get this I-Book partitioned
>within the next 48 hrs, and need advice. Thanks.
Why do you want to partition the hard disk? With MacOS Extended
Format (HFS+) you don't have to worry about minimum block sizes. Any
drive over 2gigs will use a 4k minimum block size. Thats pretty
small. Similar to a 200MB of HFS or something like that.
Peace,
Aqua
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