[Michael E. Davis]

Be kind. I'm not a "techie". I finally got up the nerve to load OS X 10.1 on my G4 Cube. I'm having several problems. I talked to someone at a local store that specializes in Apple, and he suggested having a separate drive with OS X on one and 9.2 on the other. That was after disussing partitions (he said they can get corrupted), or all mushed on one drive (another guy said you can do that, but have to keep everything carefully organized).

What are people's thoughts on this. Based on what I've experienced in the past couple of days (still can't get 9 to boot from X because of this permission thing), I'm inclined to think the separate HD is a good idea.

Thanks

[Macola]

Originally posted by Michael E. Davis:
<STRONG>Be kind. I'm not a "techie". I finally got up the nerve to load OS X 10.1 on my G4 Cube. I'm having several problems. I talked to someone at a local store that specializes in Apple, and he suggested having a separate drive with OS X on one and 9.2 on the other. That was after disussing partitions (he said they can get corrupted), or all mushed on one drive (another guy said you can do that, but have to keep everything carefully organized).

What are people's thoughts on this. Based on what I've experienced in the past couple of days (still can't get 9 to boot from X because of this permission thing), I'm inclined to think the separate HD is a good idea.

Thanks </STRONG>

Since you have a Cube, having a second drive would be difficult, and there are sometimes problems with booting OS X from an external drive, particularly Firewire. I would definitely recommend installing it on a separate partition, though. Doing that helped save me a lot of trouble when I needed to reinstall OS X. It also makes it easier to boot into OS 9 if you need to, instead of running Classic.

The other thing I'd recommend is updating to 10.1.3.

[Michael E. Davis]

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Since you have a Cube, having a second drive would be difficult, and there are sometimes problems with booting OS X from an external drive, particularly Firewire. I would definitely recommend installing it on a separate partition, though. Doing that helped save me a lot of trouble when I needed to reinstall OS X. It also makes it easier to boot into OS 9 if you need to, instead of running Classic.

The other thing I'd recommend is updating to 10.1.3.</STRONG>[/QUOTE]

[Michael E. Davis]

Originally posted by Macola:
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Since you have a Cube, having a second drive would be difficult, and there are sometimes problems with booting OS X from an external drive, particularly Firewire. I would definitely recommend installing it on a separate partition, though. Doing that helped save me a lot of trouble when I needed to reinstall OS X. It also makes it easier to boot into OS 9 if you need to, instead of running Classic.

The other thing I'd recommend is updating to 10.1.3.</STRONG>

Thanks. I guess that's what I'll do. Someone who seemed to know what they were talking about said there could be problems with "corrupting" the partitions. I don't know how that happens, unless you put stuff in the wrong partition.

I was wanting to avoid having to backup/reload all the software I have for 9.x, but I guess I'll have to. It will give me a chance to become more proficient with Toast. I don't keep any of my personal stuff on my HD, just applications, so my 20GB HD should be big enough to host both OS's. Any recommendations on size for either one?

Should I boot up from my 9.2 disk, or OS X, to build the partitions, or does that matter?

Thanks again

[Macola]

Originally posted by Michael E. Davis:
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Should I boot up from my 9.2 disk, or OS X, to build the partitions, or does that matter?

Thanks again </STRONG>

Unfortunately, there is no good way to nondestructively partition a disk on the Mac, which means you'll need either to borrow an external drive, or back up your OS 9 stuff to multiple CDs (very painful). If you have an external drive, just copy everything from your OS 9 disk to the backup drive--it's that easy in OS 9. There are ways to copy/restore in OS X but I wouldn't recommend it for the average user.

Then boot from your OS 9 CD and partition the drive with Drive Setup. The sizes depend on whether you have more apps and files for OS 9 or X. An even split may be best if you're not sure at this point. Restore your OS 9 files from your backup, and then install OS X onto the other partition. After that, run Software Update to get the latest OS X build before installing your apps. That should do it. Good luck!