Partitioning the disk in Panther

[toroidal boat]

Is there a way to partition the disk that 10.3.9 runs on? Disk Utility doesn't let me do that by default because 10.3.9 is running on it.

 

[Intell]

You cannot partition the startup disk in Panther. You must boot from another drive before you can partition it. Note: If you do partition it, it will erase the drive first.

 

[KoolAid-Drink]

Yeah, unfortunately, Tiger was the OS that introduced non-destructive disk partitioning. If you have a copy of the Tiger DVD, try booting to it and re-partitioning from Disk Utility? Backup first.

 

[Intell]

Yeah, unfortunately, Tiger was the OS that introduced non-destructive disk partitioning. If you have a copy of the Tiger DVD, try booting to it and re-partitioning from Disk Utility? Backup first.

Only later versions of Tiger had it. I'm not sure if PowerPC Tiger ever supported it. I do know that if the drive has the OS 9 drivers installed on it, the entire hard drive must be erased before it can be repartitioned.

 

[Fishrrman]

The procedure for partitioning in 10.3.9:

1. Backup the drive to be partitioned.
2. Boot from A DIFFERENT drive
3. Re-initialize and partition the "target drive"
4. Restore backups to it as necessary.

Aside:
10.3.9 is a good OS and I used it for years, "holding out" from upgrading any further.
But 10.4.x is a good upgrade, I discovered...