Partitions/OS10.5/PT8

[TallNorton]

A question on partitioning an external drive on a Mac.

I'm going to be upgrading my iBookG4 to Leopard and PT8 and it seems that the prevailing opinion is to install all of this stuff on a dedicated external hard drive.

Thus, is the proper methodology to partition the external drive with one partition being the start up disk and the other partition being for recording?

This is virgin territory, so any and all advice welcome.

 

[pezking]

Do not install Pro Tools on any drive other than the system drive!!!!!!!

The external drive should be used for the recording, i.e. save your projects there!

 

[TallNorton]

What I was proposing was to use the external drive for another startup drive with 10.5 and also have PT8 live there, rather than on the internal drive.

 

[pezking]

My bad; didn't understand that. Can you install OSX to an external drive? This seems a bit funky to me.

Why not just make a backup of your system then reuse the system drive? or buy another one and change it as you need it.

Alternatively partition the internal system disk and have your current installation on one, and the leopard installation on the other.

You should never have the OS on the same physcial hard drive you are recording files to. Making a partition would make no difference to that statement.

 

[TallNorton]

I'm going to try your suggestion. I partitioned my 1TB external drive with 200gb for the system backup and eventual daily backup and the other 800gb for my PT stuff.

I'll install system 10.5 on the internal drive and then PT8, cross my fingers and hope I get it right!