[geeks] Anyone use XPostFacto?

Jonathan Groll lists at groll.co.za
Mon Oct 13 02:54:01 CDT 2008


On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 08:40:41AM +0200, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
>On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 07:58:01AM +0200, Jonathan Groll wrote:
>>On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 07:34:02AM +0200, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
>>>The problem with the Bondi iMac is that it will not boot beyond 8000 
>>>megabytes.
>>>The boot partition must be totally within the 8000 megabytes. OS9 and OSX 
>>>10.0
>>>to 10.2 does not really have that resriction because it boots OS 9 drivers
>>>and then boots OS X.
>>
>>I assume 8 or 80 or 800MB is meant and not 8GB?
>
>No, it's 8000 megabytes. I specify it that way because when you use the
>OS9 partition tool, you have to specify it that way. Anything less
>than 8000 megabytes is ok, 8001 (or 8191) is not.
>
>If I said 8g, someone would try 8192 or 8191 megabytes.

Didn't they originally ship with only a 4GB hard disk though?

Cheers,
Jonathan



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