Re: Installing Games on the IIgs Hard Drive, What am I Doing Wrong??

[Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com>]

David Schmidt <schmidtd@my-deja.com> wrote:
> On 2/11/2013 12:02 PM, Tempest wrote:
>> Of course even if this works my problem is that my partitions are only
>> 30 Megs and the hard drive images are 32 Megs. Something tells me that
>> won't work out very well.  I've never tried to repartition a hard drive
>> on a IIgs before (mine came that way).  How hard is that to do?
> 
> I wouldn't bother.  As long as the 32MB image doesn't really have all
> 32MB used - i.e. as long as there's some blank space at the end - it'll
> work anyway.  And if it is really chock full, the only things that won't
> work are the games that are on the "missing" 2MB.

Wouldn't that leave the volume metadata, including the bitmap, incorrect
for the smaller actual volume?

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