Any partition size restrictions.

[Maconthemove]

Going to put OS 9.22 and OS X 4.11 on a G4 Dual 867 cpu machine with a 80GB hd. Is there any patition size for either OS.

 

[~tl]

As long as you've got a machine which supports 48-bit LBA and are formatting the partitions as HFS+ then there's no practical limit to worry about.

 

[Maconthemove]

Thx

 

[Anonymous Freak]

Basically, if that dual 867 MHz machine was 'naturally' a dual 867 MHz machine, (which means it is a Mirror Drive Door from January 2002,) then you have no limitations at all.

If it is an older machine that was upgraded to dual 867 MHz, then you could have a limitation that the onboard hard drive controller will only recognize up to 128 GB drives. As long as you use a 120 GB or smaller drive, you have no 'partition' limitations.

If you happen to have some oddball beige G3 or original iMac with some unheard of dual 867 MHz upgrade, then you would have to make a less-than-8 GB partition for OS X to reside in.

Finally, if you're going to put the two OSes on the same partition, then you can go ahead and use the whole drive. If you're going to have separate partitions, then pretty much just decide how much space you want for each. Mac OS 9 needs about 200 MB, although that is for an extremely stripped-down install. Mac OS X 10.4 (not "X 4 or X.4") needs about 2 GB, although, again, that is for an extremely stripped-down install. On an 80 GB drive, 10/70 or even 5/75 would probably work fine, unless you know you're going to need more room on the Mac OS 9 side.

 

[Quadraman]

From the second run of Quicksilvers (2002) onward drives larger than 128gb are supported natively. Older G4's need a controller card for larger drives.