Re: Fwd: Partition my drive or not...

I always partition, too, and there are several reasons. First, to allow booting from another partition for diagnostics (of course, if the hd physically goes out, that's not worth much). Second, and more importantly, because I've always heard that partitioning a large drive eliminates wasted spa

Re: Fwd: Partition my drive or not...

>> Should I partition my drive when I install 10.2? What are the pros and cons? If you partition you drive to keep 9 on a separate partition, should you need to do a clean OS X install, you won't have to re-install 9. Plus, it makes troubleshooting easier since the folders from OS 9 are not m

Re: Fwd: Partition my drive or not...

One advantage of separate partitions is that you can hold down the option/alt key at startup to choose which system to boot into; that's quite a timesaver if you frequently switch between 9 and X. TimH -- G-Books is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://w

Fwd: Partition my drive or not...

On Dec 2, 2003, at 1:14 AM, Laurent Daudelin wrote: on 01/12/03 19:56, Dan Colwell at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK I'm finally going to do it...I know I'm a late joiner here, but it's time for me to jump to OS X. I have a 400MHz Pismo, 768MB, 40g currently running 9.2.2. Should I partition my d

Fwd: Partition my drive or not...

On Dec 2, 2003, at 1:14 AM, Laurent Daudelin wrote: on 01/12/03 19:56, Dan Colwell at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK I'm finally going to do it...I know I'm a late joiner here, but it's time for me to jump to OS X. I have a 400MHz Pismo, 768MB, 40g currently running 9.2.2. Should I partition my d