Brutkey

Alexander Shendi
@alexshendi@rollenspiel.social

I have (of corpse) backups of:
1. My home directory
2. /opt (macports)
3. MacOSX Software that I have installed

Is the solution really to repartition the disk and reinstall everything?

Thanks in advance. Please be so kind to boist

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#iBookG4 #MacOSX #MacOS9 #diskpartition
#retrocomputing #fedihelp

Scott Small 🇨🇦
@smallsco@oldbytes.space

@alexshendi@rollenspiel.social IIRC, Drive Genius will allow you to non-destructively resize partitions, including the boot partition (if you boot from a CD first).

Download here: https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/drive-genius-1x

EDIT: Apparently you need version 2 for 10.5 compatibility, which you can get from here: https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/drive-genius-2

Alexander Shendi
@alexshendi@rollenspiel.social

@smallsco@oldbytes.space

Thank you!
Currently downloading.

I'll finish my backups and try it out.

Alexander Shendi
@alexshendi@rollenspiel.social

@smallsco@oldbytes.space

Apparently it worked!
But I can't boot 9.2.2 from CD anymore.

Will try to reset the NVRAM!

Alexander Shendi
@alexshendi@rollenspiel.social

@smallsco@oldbytes.space

Resetting the NVRAM didn't work, but holding down the option key for the boot manager works.

Alexander Shendi
@alexshendi@rollenspiel.social

@smallsco@oldbytes.space

But the MacOS 9.2.2 Disk Setup doesn't recognise the free space. I tried to make a new partition with Mac OS X disktool, but it only displays the dreaded "rotating balloon".

Any suggestions?

#fedihelp #retrocomputing #MacOSX