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installing apps on different partitions

  • 21-01-2004 8:47pm
    #1
    lotas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 934 ✭✭✭


    Right. i have a G3 imac, a 333Mhz Rev D with 288mb ram and a new 80gb Hitachi Hard drive. i found out that i have to partition the drive in 2 before i could install OSX. first partition is to be less then 7.4Gb, and then the rest for the other. anyway, i made a 6gb partition for OSX its self, moved my home dir to the other partition and everything is running ok there, but how do i move my apps over? i was installing iLife 04 and it asked where i wanted to put all the stuff. the second 70+gb partition said that i couldent install in there. it says that i cant install it there cause i can only install it on the running osx partition. any ideas on how i can fix this? i have used about 3gb already, and the only thing sitting on the other partition is office x and my home dir. Xcode needs something like 3gb for the whole thing, and ilife 04 wants about 2.2gb for grageband alone!
    Thanks in advance.


Comments

  • #2
    Hugh_C
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,852 ✭✭✭Hugh_C


    Originally posted by lotas
    have a G3 imac, a 333Mhz Rev D with 288mb ram and a new 80gb Hitachi Hard drive

    even though I'm officially not talking to you because you totally snubbed me in another thread and caused me pain, embarassment and public humiliation, you might find this link to our old friend macosxhints useful. It's entirely possible you have a permissions problem.

    :p


  • #3
    lotas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 934 ✭✭✭lotas


    firstly, thanks for the link :) but unfortunitly that doesent help. see, its installing of apps thats the problem. i cant. anyway, sorry for the "pain, embarassment and public humiliation"! dident mean it! :p


  • #4
    ZENER
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,163 ✭✭✭ZENER


    Interesting problem. I've just installed a 40GB drive in a 400MHz G3 iMac and partitioned the whole drive as one.

    Did you do a firmware update on the iMac?
    What partition method did you use ? Unix filesystem - Mac - Extended.

    I've never heard of partition size limitation on any of these machines especially not a partition restriction of 7.4GB.

    Did you try connecting the drive as a secondary unit and partition the drive from the existing OS and then install OS X.

    Tinky

    EDIT: My bad seems this is a "feature" of these machines!

    Apple support


  • #5
    lotas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 934 ✭✭✭lotas


    it has all its updates of the firmware. there is a problem with rev a-d models. it was fixed in rev e+ (the ones with the firewire, lack of second IDE controler, and faster cpus) but my one did not get fixed. i dont know what the problem is, but i know its there. read it in the OSX10.3 installation file (probably in 10.2, but dident read it then cause i only had a 6gb hdd and dident need to know). after all that, i just seen your updated post. so, anyone got any ideas?


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