Hello,

I am new to MOS and running MOS 3.1 on a Mac G4 500DP. I have an OSX 10.4.11 hard drive and then a 40GB drive for MOS. When I installed MOS I just took the defaults to see what happened.

Once MOS was installed I have multiple drives mounted on my Desktop.
OSX - which is obviously my OSX 10.4.11 hard drive.
Boot - I assume is the MOS Boot Drive.
Work - 35GB I assume is a MOS data drive.
Ram Disk - From my understanding an old Amiga requirement.
System - 2GB. MOS System/Program/Data

My questions are :
1: Is is safe to copy/move files to and from the OSX drive or will MOS hose the OSX drive in some manner? In BeOS days you could mount a Mac OS drive but if it crapped out it made a mess of your Mac partition.
2: I am familiar with the Pros and Cons in Windows and OSX of having a boot partition and a data partition. But in my case everything was thrown on to the System partition. Can I move Programs and Data to the Work drive? I would leave System files/folders alone.
3: Am I just better off wiping out what I have already and starting over and pay attention and just create a 40GB System drive?
4: Does MOS have Preference files or something similar pointing to where programs/data live? Or is it a through back to the 80's where you could put a program anywhere and as long as all resources were in that folder the program worked?

Thanks

The Boot-drive is formated with HFS (Apple FS) as those are the only ones that the OpenFirmware can see (and boot from). Here you will only see the boot.img (pretty much the MorphOS-kernel) and some textfiles.

The System-drive is where the rest of the OS and all apps included on the MorphOS-CD reside.

Work is kept empty, tradionally thats the place were you would install 3rd party apps/games and store your data.

Some people prefer merging system&work to on (system) drive which is actually a good idea if you want to use Grunch (packetmanager) while keeping it default settings.

Moving apps should poose no problem some 3rd party apps might have set an assign in the user-startup which you would need to update.

I haven't tried but is there any issue copying/moving data between the OSX drive and a MOS drive such as Work or System? If not then it would save me the effort of having an FTP Server on the network to get data to and from my MOS System.

> is there any issue copying/moving data between the OSX drive
> and a MOS drive such as Work or System?

Yes, as the OSX partition is in HFS+ format and the HFS+ handler in MorphOS is read-only.

> If not then it would save me the effort of having an FTP Server
> on the network to get data to and from my MOS System.

To get data from MorphOS to the OSX partition you can as well use another partition for data exchange purpose in a filesystem format that can be written from MorphOS side and read from OSX side, such as FAT.

In that case a ZIP drive or USB Stick would do the trick.

I decided to wipe out my MOS install and start over since I'm only about a week into MOS so not a big deal. I boot and and at the at the drive selector I thought I choose the 1 drive but in fact I was working on the 0 drive Anyways I nuked my OSX drive. Anything of importance I had backed up.

Since it is not my main machine it gets a refresh of both OS9/OSX and MOS this week.