Who's reformatting for Jaguar?

[balliet]

Originally posted by awrc
Reformatting? I bought a whole new drive for it (one of the WD 120GB drives with the 8MB cache

I bought two of the 80gb wd's w/ 8mb cache and a raid controller about 2 weeks ago. (I would've gone for the 120s, but by the time I fill up 160, I'll probably have a whole new computer anyway.) I did a clean install of jaguar copied all my stuff back then threw my original Seagate 80gb in another one of my computers and do nightly backups to it. I figured with this raid setup keeping a current backup is a must.

It'll probably end up in my Linux everthing-server box if I can establish whether the BIOS'll recognize a drive that large.

It should't matter what the BIOS sees it as. Linux should be able to see the whole thing. Just make sure the root partition is in the area the BIOS can see.

 

[peterjhill]

Already did. I finally got rid of that pesky OS 9 partition that I set up. So now I have one partition and no Classic or OS 9. Pure X for me

Unless you have a giant HD, I do not recommend partitioning. It gives you very little advantage over a single partition. None of the advantages have to do with reliability.

 

[mmmdreg]

I got Jaguar!!!...however, I didn't reformat like I said...I just HAD to get a firsthand look at this stuff so I just installed the update...I'll probably reformat on the weekend when I can be bothered backing everything up...still, jaguar seems to be very nice so far...I only ran into one problem with the fstab file for mounting my Users partition at /Users instead of /Volumes/users but I fixed that quickly so no matter....