Re: strategy for repartitioning drive

2004-03-04 Thread Luis Sequeira
John, A few thoughts. First of all, you have OS 9 on this machine, why not use SCSI disk mode? This would allow you to make your powerbook into a large external hard drive from which you could then back your stuff off. (really bad grammar there...) The do require a special SCSI adapter - a HDI

Re: strategy for repartitioning drive

2004-03-04 Thread Tom Roth
-- From: Phil Burk Subject: Re: strategy for repartitioning drive A few thoughts. First of all, you have OS 9 on this machine, why not use SCSI disk mode? This would allow you to make your powerbook into a large external hard drive from which you could then back

strategy for repartitioning drive

2004-03-02 Thread John Slavin
I messed up when I first installed OSX, in that I thought both OSX and OS9 had to be in the first 8GB. Now I understand that only OSX needs to be there. My original strategy was to have OSX on a 4GB partition, OS9 on the next 4GB and the rest would be reserved for data. I have come to the

Re: strategy for repartitioning drive

2004-03-02 Thread Phil Burk
On Mar 2, 2004, at 5:59 PM, John Slavin wrote: I messed up when I first installed OSX, in that I thought both OSX and OS9 had to be in the first 8GB. Now I understand that only OSX needs to be there. My original strategy was to have OSX on a 4GB partition, OS9 on the next 4GB and the rest

Re: strategy for repartitioning drive

2004-03-02 Thread John Slavin
That's what I was afraid of. So now I'm wondering how to get all this stuff off my wallstreet. The logical thing would be to create a folder on my ibook and then copy everything via ethernet. Boy is that going to take a while via 10T ethernet or wireless ethernet. Can I copy the startup

Re: strategy for repartitioning drive

2004-03-02 Thread Phil Burk
John, A few thoughts. First of all, you have OS 9 on this machine, why not use SCSI disk mode? This would allow you to make your powerbook into a large external hard drive from which you could then back your stuff off. (really bad grammar there...) The do require a special SCSI adapter - a