Suggestions on installing 10.2?

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motoyen

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Hi everyone,

I am making the move from OS9 to OSX and was wondering what is the best way to install OSX. Do I need to partition my hard drive? Normally in 9 I have 3 partitions, system/apps/personal. I am a total newbie when it comes to OSX so any tips would be appreciated.

I am running a G4/867/1.1GB RAM/60MB main drive/40BG slave drive. Currently I have OS 10.1.5 on my second drive but I plan to do a clean install on my main drive and move OS9 to the second drive.
 
My preference would be to have 9 and X on their own partitions. Doesn't matter which drive you have either on.
 
I currently have 3 Partitions OSX,OS9 and Data....(which DATA is awhole different drive) -- I use this set up incase something happens and I need to reload .... all my important things I keep on DATA --- also in the netinfo manager you can change your home directory to where ever you want... I would suggest on another partition incase something happens....Good Luck!
 
When installing X use the customize menu and get rid of all languages you don't seek and printer drivers that you won't need. You'll save a lot of room.

Twister
 
Yea, the partitions are the best way to go. You will see why when one bombs for whatever reason, makes it so much easier to get the system back up and running. I have 2 drives, with 5 partitions. I like to have a X, 9, Scratch for downloads and application scratch space, Work for freelance files, and New Media for my video and audio projects. I lost my Scratch disc recently, no big deal, i just dragged the stuff to another drive then reformatted the partition, all is fine now.
 
I read something about a swap file and it should be on a separate partition to speed up the OS? What is a swap file and is this necessary in 10.2?

TIA
 
Swap files are little (70M) files on the disk that are used to virtually add some RAM to the computer. That's why everybody says OSX can open an infinity of applications.

If you are fragmenting your disk a lot and if you have litlle RAM, why not. Your specs (1.1GB RAM/60G+40G) tell me you don't need this swap partition.

Your specs are really good, don't care about that. OSX.2 should run smoothly (you have Quartz Xtreme activated, I think) and fast (1.1Gig RAM ? I thought it was limited to 1.0G ?).

Partitions: I have 2 partitions (OSX and Classic). Very good when one OS crashes, as said before. My Classic partition hosts all my important (understand: design) applications and OS9. My OSX one handles all files (I receive a LOT from the Web every day), plus OSX and some little applications.

With your big HD, I think you could make some more partitions:

Disk #1 (40G)
- 10G Classic (system/apps)
- 30G OSX (system/apps)
Disk #2 (60G)
- 10G download scratch
- 50G data (music etc.)

That's what I would do.
 
Say I set up my main drive with 2 partitions, one with OSX installed and one with all my work files. When I click Home where will it take me? To the partition with the system on it? If so can I change that?
 
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