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XPostFacto
I was. At no point in time was I angered.
Nor am I. Being an Apple tech is not gonna help you get OS X running on old hardware anyway since they are not trained to do this sort of thing. Generally it is just "Oh, it does not work anymore? hmmmmmm... what does Master Steve say? Archive and install! Oh.. that did not work? uhh, Master Steve says to toss the computer in the trash and get a new one!! YAY!!
"/me rolls eyesYou just made many passionate and dedicated librarians cry. I hope you are happy with yourself.
hahaha. I amuse myself with what I say sometimes. 
No offence has been taken and I do not intend to do the same but you are not my friend. There are only a few people who I have met online that I would consider to be actual friends. Everybody else are just people I have encountered at varying levels of knowingness.(yes I made up a word)
Ok, time to get back on topic now, enough thread jacking with emo crap for this week.
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I have never heard that before this thread. Did the person who's words you read mention what purpose it serves?
wowI was. At no point in time was I angered.Nor am I. Being an Apple tech is not gonna help you get OS X running on old hardware anyway since they are not trained to do this sort of thing. Generally it is just "Oh, it does not work anymore? hmmmmmm... what does Master Steve say? Archive and install! Oh.. that did not work? uhh, Master Steve says to toss the computer in the trash and get a new one!! YAY!!
You just made many passionate and dedicated librarians cry. I hope you are happy with yourself.No offence has been taken and I do not intend to do the same but you are not my friend. There are only a few people who I have met online that I would consider to be actual friends. Everybody else are just people I have encountered at varying levels of knowingness.(yes I made up a word)
Ok, time to get back on topic now, enough thread jacking with emo crap for this week.
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I have never heard that before this thread. Did the person who's words you read mention what purpose it serves?
Yeah, XPostFacto is just one of those products that sometimes takes a bit of mind twisting to figure out. Personally, my first use of it sorta was through BootX of all things to cram Linux on my old macs. Then the XPostFacto that used BootX to get things going.. It's been a while for sure, but once figured out it's very powerful and handy to have around.
My last use of it was to get OSX 10.4 on a Beige G3 Desktop with the non universal 1Gig G4 Sonnet in it... I REALLY REALLY miss that machine now. But cash was needed and out the door to a friend in Mexico it went.
So basically, yes, format your drive if you only have one drive to put the OSX partition in the first 7.9 (8 gig) of the drive max, and then say a 400 meg OS 9 partition anywhere up to the 128 Gig mark if you have one that big.
IF you need to go to a different hd for OS 9, just configure XPostFacto to use the right helper partion/drive.
The most confusing part to teach the guy that bought my machine was how to properly update the OS when XPostFacto was installed. Syncing up is very necessary I've found.
Good luck,
My last use of it was to get OSX 10.4 on a Beige G3 Desktop with the non universal 1Gig G4 Sonnet in it... I REALLY REALLY miss that machine now. But cash was needed and out the door to a friend in Mexico it went.
So basically, yes, format your drive if you only have one drive to put the OSX partition in the first 7.9 (8 gig) of the drive max, and then say a 400 meg OS 9 partition anywhere up to the 128 Gig mark if you have one that big.
IF you need to go to a different hd for OS 9, just configure XPostFacto to use the right helper partion/drive.
The most confusing part to teach the guy that bought my machine was how to properly update the OS when XPostFacto was installed. Syncing up is very necessary I've found.
Good luck,
5GB will be tight, but you're OK to install 10.2 along side OS 9 on a single partition. Good to have an OS 9 install disk or complete backup in case something goes wrong and you have to reformat and start from scratch.