First 8 GB Rule: Workaround? Anything?

[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.  

[rtgwbmsr]

Some of the basic commands work differently...and it uses a different file system (HFS+ vs Whatever UNIX uses.)

[voidmain]

Yeah, I don't believe Darwin is for me:

http://www.opendarwin.org/faq.shtml#fstab

[TheQuirk]

VoidMain, I talked to a guy who uses Mac OS X and he told me you can create an /etc/fstab and it will obey it.

[hm_murdock]

the problem isn't that it can't be outside of 8GB...

I quote LowEndMac:

If you have a hard drive over 8 GB in size <i>and</i> have more than one partition on it, the partition containing OS X <b>must</b> be within the first 8 GB of space or you will not be able to run OS X.

So... if you've got a large drive and it's one partition, there's no problem.

that's on...

iMac 233-333 (tray-loading), Power Macintosh G3 233-333 (Beige and All-in-one), PowerBook G3 Series (Wallstreet/MainStreet/PDQ 233, 250, 292MHz), G3 Series II (Wallstreet/PDQ 233, 266, 300MHz)

[rtgwbmsr]

OS X wouldn't let me install on 1 18.something gig partition.

[hm_murdock]

as a single partition?

what machine was it on?

[ntiozymandias]

quote:Originally posted by void main:
Yeah, I don't believe Darwin is for me:

http://www.opendarwin.org/faq.shtml#fstab

They fixed it under version 6 (the base for Jaguar). Supposedly, it works the "right" way now, although autodiskmount is still the default.