Crystal, you might need to set up an 8 gig partition for X.4 on your
new HD.
Read this.....
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106235
Your procedure would be to.....
reformat your external to two partitions...7.8 Gig (needs slightly
less than 8 actually), and whatever is left,
Copy all your existing 9.2.2 to the larger partition.
swap over the drives
install 10.4 on the first 7.8 Gigs of your now internal drive.
Replace the external for backup when satisfied all is well.
If you want extra room than the 10.4 partition holds, copy Users to
the 9.2.2 partition, and drop an alias of Users from its new position
to replace the old folder.
Santa
On 25/06/2005, at 12:16 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
All right -- the external drive didn't let me boot from it this
time, so if
it ever has, it must have been some kind of crazy fluke. (My
computer has
enough of those for me not to disbelieve in them entirely. ;)) But
I do still
wonder why the OS X installer showed a disk other than the internal
drive, that one
time ... I can't get it to reproduce the event with the Zip drive.
Oh, well.
Regardless, I guess I should just clear off enough space on the
internal
drive to install OS X there. But the external drive was meant for
backup, so
probably I ought to get *another* external, either for backup or
for storing my
ever-escalating reams of data in use. Unless someone has more
efficient
recommendations? Or just recommendations on reliable brands of
external drive?
Out of curiosity, how does everyone else have their computers set
up, in
terms of external drives, backup, storage space, and such? I can't
be the only one
to need more than 10 G of storage space for all her stuff...
And why the heck can't this computer boot from an external disk,
anyway? ;)
What's the difference between booting from a CD and booting from an
external
hard drive?
Crystal
(Bearer of the curse of endless questions)
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