Repartition or second disk

Daniel Gimpelevich daniel at gimpelevich.san-francisco.ca.us
Fri Nov 5 22:54:06 MST 2004


FWB requires Mac OS 8 (yes, 8) and so will not run on a G5. If you can put
a second disk in a G5, I wholeheartedly recommend that you do so.

On Fri, 05 Nov 2004 21:11:44 -0500, John M Phillips wrote:

> Well, our G5 has been waiting a while, and now that YellowDog version 4.0 
> has arrived, I have too much stuff on the disk to start over.  My options 
> are either try re-partitioning software like Subrosasoft or just buy a 
> second hard disk.  I know that I will need to back the disk up first, but 
> I am sure that if I loose the disk, the open-software programs will need 
> to be reinstalled.
> 
> Has any one had experience with Subrosasoft or FWB partition toolkit? Any 
> recommendation?
> 
>>From YellowDog 3, I seem to remember that it was not trivial to install 
> yellowdog on a system with multiple disk?  Has any one installed yellowdog 
> 4 on a second hard drive?
> 
> thanks,
> John Phillips
> 
> 
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