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I have my hard disk partitioned into five volumes. When Mac OS X came to light, I recall that Mac OS X had to be on your second partition (with Mac OS 9.x on the first partition). Does that still hold true for 10.2? The reason I am asking is that I would like to move 10.2 to my bigger partition which is my third or fourth partition (I am running out of room on my second partition). Please let me know if I can do this.
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On some older machines, OS X has to be installed in the first 8GB of the disk. But that was on older machines only.
Otherwise you can install OS X on any partition.
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Older Macs? How far back is considered old? I have a PowerMac G4 500 (Sawtooth). Am I fine to install Mac OS X on any partition?
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Originally posted by ginop1:
Older Macs? How far back is considered old? I have a PowerMac G4 500 (Sawtooth). Am I fine to install Mac OS X on any partition?
Old means beige. The only supported machine with this limitation is the Beige G3 in its various incarnations. From the Rev.A iMac onward, you can put OSX wherever you want.
I would imagine that machines older than the Beige G3 probably also have this limitation, but I don't know for sure. They're officially unsupported, so Apple is silent on the matter.
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The only machines affected are the PowerBook G3 Series, an original Power Macintosh G3, or some older iMacs. So you are not affected by this. On affected machines, the OS X installer will tell you. So just go ahead and install, you can't go wrong.
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Originally posted by ginop1:
Older Macs? How far back is considered old? I have a PowerMac G4 500 (Sawtooth). Am I fine to install Mac OS X on any partition?
on the install cd there is a pdf document called "Read before you install" - it's there for a reason, and it will tell you which computers the 8GB partition applies to.
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