On Mar 24, 2004, at 3:50 PM, Richard Starr wrote:
--- You wrote: Sigh..this was the 8-gig limit we've been talking about.
On the Beige G3's and some 1st gen iMacs, a bug in the onboard IDE controller code limits OSX to being installed in the first 8 gigs on a drive. As you found, it will not install otherwise.
You need to reformat and re-partition the drive on that controller.
--- end of quote ---
I did reformat it and used only one partition. I even did it in X using the
Disk Utility. Still didn't work.
You need to create *two* partitions on that drive. The first one (at the top of the little diagram of drive partitions in Disk Utility) needs to be less than 8GB; mine is 7.8 GB, iirc. The rest of the drive can be a single large partition.
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Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group
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