Re: Partioning SCSI drives larger than 130 Megs?

[dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

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.

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