I'm working on a Beige DT 266 rev.2 for a friend's mother. I upgraded the HD to 60gb and the System to 10.2.6, but was stuck with the 8gb partition at the beginning. I think if I read correctly that an Acard 66 ATA card would allow any size partition, correct? Also, the system seems fairly quick. It matches my 7500/G4/400 on xBench. It's got 576mb RAM. Would it be worthwhile moving the swap volume to a dedicated small drive, and would the internal SCSI bus be quick enough.
Probably not. A better solution would be to move the /Users directory to the 53 gb partition left over.
<http://www.bombich.com/mactips/homedir.html>
Doing a similar thing for Applications (which should be as simple as moving the Applications directory to the other partition using 'ditto', and replacing the /Applications directory with a symlink to the /Volumes/<OtherPartition>/Applications directory) would move everything but the system stuff onto the larger partition. 8GB is more than enough space for the System and swap. On my system at home, /System is only 867 mb in size, /Applications is up to only 1.42 gb, versus /Users which is 6GB right now. (and resides on a 30 gb partition...)
You *can* move your swap to a different volume, but this really only becomes important if your'e swapping in and out a *lot*, which, with 576 mb of ram, and a 'friends mother' as a user, you're unlikely to do...if all she's doing is surfing, e-mail, word processing, iPhoto, iTunes, etc, you're probably not going to be hitting the swap hard enough to see much difference.
Read this before you move the swap partition:
<http://www.bombich.com/mactips/swap.html>
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