Re: Partioning SCSI drives larger than 130 Megs?

["Greg J. Buchner" <buchner@tcfreenet.org>]

On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, David Empson wrote:

> Greg J. Buchner <buchner@tcfreenet.org> wrote:
> 
> > On 10 Nov 1998, Obsbedia2 wrote:
> > 
> > > 800K partitions?  Are we still talking about repartitioning a SCSI HD
> > > for use with a IIe?
> > 
> > I put 800K partitions on a Syquest cart for making easy copies of the
> > IIGS System Disks on the drive.  It was nice to do a system install
> > without having to insert any disks and it was very quick.
> 
> Even nicer: set up a partition of about 5 MB and merge ALL the system
> disks onto it, then modify the installer scripts to work with the
> unified system, disabling Easy Update in the process.  I have done this
> on my hard drive.  Only one icon in Finder instead of five.

I tried doing something like that at one point, going in an changing
the pathnames in the installer scripts, but it didn't work for me.

Then along came Chinook SCSI Utils as freeware and it's ability to do
800K partitions, so I just did that and forgot about it.  Seeing as it's
on a Syquest cart that's rarely used, it's not much of a bother.

Greg B.

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