How should I install Mac OS 9?

wolfeye155

I'm thinking that I should make a seperate partition but I don't know how much space I should use. All I want to do is be able to run Classic if I have to for this or that. I'd like to use the smallest amount of space as possible. So how many megs/gigs should I allocate to this seperate partition?

brianmacos

[quote]Originally posted by wolfeye155:

<strong>I'm thinking that I should make a seperate partition but I don't know how much space I should use. All I want to do is be able to run Classic if I have to for this or that. I'd like to use the smallest amount of space as possible. So how many megs/gigs should I allocate to this seperate partition?</strong><hr></blockquote>



I would give OS9 2 gigs and the rest to OSX.

wolfeye155

It's not letting me do anything to the harddrive. I am the administrator though. There is a little lock on the harddrive in the partition section in the disk utility program. Am I not logged in as the admin.? How do I do this? <img src="confused.gif" border="0">

ibrowse

You need to set up partitions before you install your OS. Booting of the install cd and using the Disk Utility on that will let you create partitions, but your harddrive is erased when the partitions are made.

hudson

In a similar vein, maybe someone here can share their thoughts on my situation. I posted this question on MacNN but I find that there's little tangible response:



"I'm putting a 20GB hard disk drive in an older tray-loading iMac which will have the 8GB partition issue with OS X.1.5.



On the smaller current drive, I have a separate partition for OS 9 that has allowed me to use both 9.2.2 (as Classic and on the X partition) and 9.1 (on its own small partition for booting on occasion). This arrangement has worked well as I've been able to keep very distinct extension sets for both Classic and 9 with relative ease. OS 9 still gets booted, primarily for kids games that need Open GL which X doesn't do on this machine. My intent is to set up this Classic/9 duality on the new drive, too.



That was just some background and so here's my question: Since my first partition will have to be a max of 8GB, what portion of the whole OS X install would be best to offload to another partition? I'm guessing that it would be either /Users or /Applications. From my experience, 8GB is really not enough for everything without the risk of running out of room one way or another at some point. Also, should that first partition be 8GB or should it be smaller?



Thanks for any advice or experience you can render. I've searched the forums pretty well but didn't see any thread that really addressed this question."

wolfeye155

Thanks Brian and iBrowse! Worked great.



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ibrowse

You're welcome