Comments on: No PowerBook Can Hold Me http://mjtsai.com/blog/2005/09/23/no-powerbook-can-hold-me/ Sat, 06 Sep 2008 02:09:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: ad http://mjtsai.com/blog/2005/09/23/no-powerbook-can-hold-me/#comment-9195 ad Fri, 23 Sep 2005 14:57:50 +0000 http://mjtsai.com/blog/2005/09/23/no-powerbook-can-hold-me/#comment-9195 He needs to boot four partitions? Surely two are fairly pointless: # A backup of the current version -- why would you need to boot that wherever you are? Put it on the external drive, and plug it in when you need to boot it. IF you need to boot it. 20gb is a lot of space to waste just so you can trust Software Update. # The next upcoming version. -- which there, er, isn't right now. Apart from the seeds of 10.4.3. Exciting. Slap it on the external to. That leaves two systems at 20GB each, plus 60GB working set ... and 20GB left over on the Powerbook. He needs to boot four partitions? Surely two are fairly pointless:
# A backup of the current version
-- why would you need to boot that wherever you are? Put it on the external drive, and plug it in when you need to boot it. IF you need to boot it. 20gb is a lot of space to waste just so you can trust Software Update.

# The next upcoming version.
-- which there, er, isn't right now. Apart from the seeds of 10.4.3. Exciting. Slap it on the external to.

That leaves two systems at 20GB each, plus 60GB working set ... and 20GB left over on the Powerbook.

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