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First 8 GB Rule: Workaround? Anything?

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rtgwbmsr:
This whole "Mac OS X has to be installed in the first 8 GB of a partition" thing BLOWS A$$! Jaguar (2+ GB), Developer Tools (1GB) iTunes & The Music folder (5 GB), Oh wait...I can't fit more...WTF!!!

Why can't Apple figure something out to get MOSX to install on a WHOLE DRIVE, not a drive that has to be Minced into little pieces to get something out of it?

//Rant

Anyway...is there a workaround? Anything?

[ September 08, 2002: Message edited by: The_Muffin_Man/B0b ]

trc3:
Why dont you move the music folder on a diffrent partition or drive?  Without the 5 gig music folder 10 with dev tools would only take 3 gigs giving you alot of space to work with.  Besides its better to keep the partition with the os nice and clean.  Also isint the 8 gig rule only for really old g3's?

rtgwbmsr:
PowerBook G3 Series (All: Wallstreet, Wallstreet II, Lombard, and I think Pismo)

iTunes can't see files on other drives...why I don't know.

cocoamix:
Just install the System itself on the 8GB partition. Everything else in your home directory can be aliases or symbolic links to other partitions, and it will all work.
As a matter of fact i RECOMMEND doing it this way, as a full install won't wipe out anything personal when you re-install since that's all on another partition.

[ September 09, 2002: Message edited by: cocoamix ]

voidmain:
In fact the best way is to create a partition of the rest of the drive and just mount "/home" on that partition. Then you don't need to symlink anything.  I assume Darwin isn't any different than any other *NIX system. If it is, I'll just keep quiet.  

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