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Test of single partitioned drive
Authored by: Monkey Angst on Mar 21, '02 12:20:51PM

No, the actual rule is that the partition that contains OS X must be entirely contained in the first 8GB of the disk, only on the following machines:

PowerBook G3 Wallstreet
Power Macintosh G3 (All beige models, but not blue and white)
Rev A, B, C, or D iMac

All other machines can have the OS X partition wherever you like.



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Partioning scheme on
Authored by: ihafro on Mar 21, '02 01:34:03PM

Now someone tell me if I'm wrong on this..........

This problem doesn't seem to affect "unsupported" machines.I have a Umax S900 partitioned so:

14 GB >MacOS X
5 GB >MacOS 9.1 (for booting this machine into 9)
1 GB >MacOS 9.2.2 (Blue box only)

I haven't had any problems. Just thought some people who have these older machines would like to know.



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