Forums
New posts
Articles
Product Reviews
Policies
FAQ
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Forums
Apple Computing Products:
macOS - Operating System
Installation problems
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="Avalon" data-source="post: 155677" data-attributes="member: 5184"><p>Partitioning on the PC can't work, as fdisk doesn't recognise the Mac's file format (HFS+).</p><p></p><p>You can't partition the disk on which you booted. You need to start from a system that's either on an external disk, or you can boot with your system CD, and use the Disk Utility from there (it should be accessible through the menu).</p><p>May I ask why you want to partition it? If that G4 still has the stock HD, it's not very big anyway...</p><p></p><p>And also, I would suggest you get a newer version of OS X. Unlike windows, newer versions of OS X run faster, even on older hardware.</p><p>I tried for example 10.1 on a 400MHz G4 with 512MB memory, and it was quite sluggish, it was much better running under OS9. But after upgrading it to 10.3, it was the other way around! After turning off some of the graphical effects it's pretty snappy (with the same ammount of memory).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Avalon, post: 155677, member: 5184"] Partitioning on the PC can't work, as fdisk doesn't recognise the Mac's file format (HFS+). You can't partition the disk on which you booted. You need to start from a system that's either on an external disk, or you can boot with your system CD, and use the Disk Utility from there (it should be accessible through the menu). May I ask why you want to partition it? If that G4 still has the stock HD, it's not very big anyway... And also, I would suggest you get a newer version of OS X. Unlike windows, newer versions of OS X run faster, even on older hardware. I tried for example 10.1 on a 400MHz G4 with 512MB memory, and it was quite sluggish, it was much better running under OS9. But after upgrading it to 10.3, it was the other way around! After turning off some of the graphical effects it's pretty snappy (with the same ammount of memory). [/QUOTE]
Verification
Post reply
Forums
Apple Computing Products:
macOS - Operating System
Installation problems
Top