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rtgwbmsr

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First 8 GB Rule: Workaround? Anything?
« on: 9 September 2002, 06:40 »
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 ]


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« Reply #1 on: 9 September 2002, 07:30 »
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

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« Reply #2 on: 9 September 2002, 08:49 »
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.

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« Reply #3 on: 10 September 2002, 01:34 »
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 ]


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« Reply #4 on: 10 September 2002, 03:43 »
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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« Reply #5 on: 10 September 2002, 03:56 »
Some of the basic commands work differently...and it uses a different file system (HFS+ vs Whatever UNIX uses.)

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« Reply #6 on: 10 September 2002, 04:19 »
Yeah, I don't believe Darwin is for me:

http://www.opendarwin.org/faq.shtml#fstab
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« Reply #7 on: 15 September 2002, 21:25 »
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.

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« Reply #8 on: 13 October 2002, 10:06 »
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...

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« Reply #9 on: 13 October 2002, 11:01 »
OS X wouldn't let me install on 1 18.something gig partition.

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« Reply #10 on: 14 October 2002, 01:11 »
as a single partition?

what machine was it on?
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« Reply #11 on: 15 October 2002, 01:31 »
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.