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Partition drive after installation.....?
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You cannot do this non-destructively using Tiger's Disk Utility (i.e. without needing to reformat).
However, iPartition will do the trick.
However, iPartition will do the trick.
iPartition generally has favourable reviews for folks who use it.
If you don’t want to deal with iPartition, you could try a Carbon Copy Cloner 3.4.7 backup of your Tiger install, put that clone (as a disk image or sparseimage) onto an external drive temporarily, and either re-format/re-partition the SSD in the PowerBook with multiple partitions, OR install Leopard on the SSD, and use Disk Utility on Leopard to live-partition a second partition on the SSD, onto which you could Carbon Copy Cloner that Tiger image back to the second partition.
It's reputable. It used to be a paid app as well.
Yep, I have a clone on a fw drive, which was done with SuperDuper at the time.
So SD is on that boot disk.
Was just being lazy.
In retrospect I should have partitioned it as it's 256gb, and the original drive was 40gb.
You should be able to resize the Tiger partition directly using Leopard's Disk Utility. Even the one in the installer should work-- I've had success with this.
Any G4 Mac can run Leopard, you may just need to circumvent the installer's 867 MHz CPU speed check.
Wow I didn't know that.....
Things get more interesting by the day.
Probably because I moved from G4PB (when on Tiger) to G5PM and PB stayed in the cupboard.
My PB is 1ghz cpu.
Definitely want multiple partitions now.....👍
Things get more interesting by the day.
Probably because I moved from G4PB (when on Tiger) to G5PM and PB stayed in the cupboard.
My PB is 1ghz cpu.
Definitely want multiple partitions now.....👍
Then Leo will happily take to it as-is.
<chuckle>Wow I didn't know that.....
At my old job I had a G4/350 running Leopard with 192mb ram. Its primary purpose was to be a printserver so that the MacPro I was using could output correctly to an Appletalk printer. It was in a corner running headless (no graphic card and no monitor/keyboard). I used screensharing to control it.
At that job, we also had another G4. A 450mhz with around 1.75gb ram. It did everything my G5 (at that time) did, just a bit slower.
Upgraded to Leopard.....boom was able to add new partitions....awesome...
Not only that, I can now connect to WiFi also.
Happy days.
Not only that, I can now connect to WiFi also.
Happy days.
Upgraded to Leopard.....boom was able to add new partitions....awesome...
Not only that, I can now connect to WiFi also.
Happy days.
That’s the happy ending we all like to hear.
A side query.....
Tried to copy my 'clone from PB HDD' (which I assumed is bootable, because I did it in SD years back) to another partition on my PB.
The drive with the clone has 3 volumes.
One is G5 clone, then PB clone and a data clone.
Initially looking in Startup Disk (from Leopard) only the internal SSD and G5 (with 10.4.11) show as startup disk.
If I restart and use boot picker none of the external volumes show as bootable (not even the G5).
Cloned the PB clone to SSD, but does not show as bootable (SD didn't have the usual bit at the end 'make bootable').
This is not a problem, just wondered why they are not selectable to boot.
Now it's copied I can just grab all documents off it into Leopard.
Tried to copy my 'clone from PB HDD' (which I assumed is bootable, because I did it in SD years back) to another partition on my PB.
The drive with the clone has 3 volumes.
One is G5 clone, then PB clone and a data clone.
Initially looking in Startup Disk (from Leopard) only the internal SSD and G5 (with 10.4.11) show as startup disk.
If I restart and use boot picker none of the external volumes show as bootable (not even the G5).
Cloned the PB clone to SSD, but does not show as bootable (SD didn't have the usual bit at the end 'make bootable').
This is not a problem, just wondered why they are not selectable to boot.
Now it's copied I can just grab all documents off it into Leopard.
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Is the external drive connected using FireWire or USB? Is it set up using the Apple Partition Map (APM) scheme (check in Disk Utility)?
USB drives don't show up in the boot picker on