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A workaround for the 8gb partition limit on Beige G3s
Authored by: baokhangnn on Apr 06, '04 11:14:27AM

OK Guys,

Here's some clarification,
How come I can install OS9 onto a 120 GB partition on a Beige G3 but not OSX? I don't believe that it's the onboard IDE controller issue! Maybe on the first generation G3's, but these were all orginally 300mhz and a few 266mhz machines. So far I have about 12GB of data on the drive and just did the security updater to 10.3.3 and everything is working great! These machine run 24/7 and people use them day-in/day-out! Else they are running Seti @ Home!

One of the students in our lab, is currently writting his doctorate dissertation using Word, Keynote, Matlab, Excel, iCal, Address Book, iSync, iTunes, .Mac, iPhoto, Safari, Sherlock, Endnote, JMP, Photoshop, Desktop Manager, and Weather POP at the same time and has had no problems what so ever! The local harddrive has well over 8GB of data on it and has NO PROBLEMS! (His home directory exist on a server somewhere else.)

Anyways hope this helps!

PS, the new version of Xpostfacto 3.0.a16 now has working drivers for Beige G3's!!!!! No need for PCI video cards!!!! Just tried it and works great! Though not as fast as a Radeon 7000! Duh!



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A workaround for the 8gb partition limit on Beige G3s
Authored by: Marcot1 on Apr 06, '04 08:58:06PM

OS9 suffer from the same issue as OSX. OSX installer is just smart enough to tell/forbid you from installing outside the first 8GB. Essentially OS9 is doing the something as this hint. If by any means OS9 ends up outside the first 8GB it will fail as OSX would.



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A workaround for the 8gb partition limit on Beige G3s
Authored by: BMarsh on Apr 06, '04 11:12:23PM

I can verify this other users comment. While OS 9 will install on a drive larger then 8 GB in a beige G3, if the OS ends up outside of that 8 GB, it will and does fail to load.

Apple put this limitation into the Mac OS X installer partically because drives got this big around this time (it also effects the first generation tray-loading iMac's with speeds from 233 to 333 Mhz)

It is a limitation of the IDE controller, not anything to do with software
(get a bootable ATA card, and you will get around this limit)



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A workaround for the 8gb partition limit on Beige G3s
Authored by: petekjohnson on Apr 10, '04 08:51:15PM

Something I don't understand about using XPostFacto... perhaps somebody can explain it to me. The Mac OS 10.3 installer CD won't actually BOOT on a Beige G3. So how does one actually reach a point where they can install it without doing what the original poster did, which was pull the drive and stick it in another machine? I only have my machine, and I keep trying XPostFacto according to the directions, but since I can't actually get the installer to come up in the first place, I pretty much get nowhere.

Thanks,
Pete
pete_johnson@mac.com



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