Ford, I don't have the various books I read (nothing else to do while waiting for my new iMac Flat Panel to arrive) about OSX here at home, as they are at my shop along with the iMac. It was my understanding that OSX need to be installed in the first 8 GB of the hard drive. I understood that to mean anywhere in those first 8 GBs. It had to do with HFS format and the machine's ability to find the system folder.
OSX will be going (hopefully) on a partition on the 60 GB IDE drive connected to the Sonnet Tempo ATA/100 PCI card. I hope to move the 18 GB SCSI over to the UMAX. If that works, I will put the 9600's original 4 GB SCSI back in for an emergency boot and maintenance drive. I really appreciate everyone's comments and responses to my RAM question. I guess I need to clarify a few things. The machine had four 64 MB chips in it when I got it. (This machine had been leased to a major retail firm for the first four years of its life. I suspect the four 64 MB chips were Apple installed.) They are from a company named Paragon. We added two "no name" 32 MB chips from a 8500, and a 32 MB Techworks & a 16 MB Techworks from our UMAX. With the exception of the two from the UMAX all are interleaved. I have no way of knowing if they are FPM or EDO. The machine has always been very stable. I especially appreciate the comments about the OrangeMicro Combo USB/FW card being workable. One less thing to have to worry about or change. Some of you folks have real guts! I was planning to leave all of the external SCSI items disconnected when I tried to install OSX. It looks like a couple of you booted and installed from external devices. I bow and remove my hat! It now looks like I will not get a chance to try OSX for about two weeks. I am leaving town on Saturday for a trade show, and this looks like a job I don't want leave "hanging" for a week. Bailey wrote: > > I think it's supposed to be no more than 8 gigs for the OS X partition, > not 8 gigs. Mine is about 4 gigs (of 15 G drive)connected to a VST > Ultratek -- Unsupported OS X is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Unsupported OS X list info <http://lowendmac.com/lists/unsupported.html> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive <http://www.mail-archive.com/unsupportedosx%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
