Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!snorkelwacker!mintaka!chaos!chaos!aland From: aland@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Alan D Danziger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Boot partition - was: Re: boot volume woes... Message-ID: Date: 14 Aug 90 04:10:42 GMT References: <3928@crash.cts.com> <6268@milton.u.washington.edu> <8950@ur-cc.UUCP> Sender: @chaos.cs.brandeis.edu Organization: Organization? Of course I'm not Organized! Lines: 29 In-Reply-To: carlo@osprey.cvs.rochester.edu's message of 14 Aug 90 00:39:11 GMT In article <8950@ur-cc.UUCP> carlo@osprey.cvs.rochester.edu (Carlo Tiana) writes: In the most recent MacUser/MacWorld, there is an article about 'getting ready for system 7. In it, the author suggests keeping system <7 on a separate hard disk from system >=7 and keeping the applications (for the 2 system versions) separate. I seem to remember that it is also mentioned somewhere that you need to reformat your HD for sys 7. Now, could the above trick be used to boot on different partitions dep. on which system you decide to run under? Could Silverlining be used to reformat the partition for sys 7 (assuming this is indeed needed - can anyone confirm?) much the way that Silverlining allows A/UX as well as Apple/OS partitions? I suspect you'd need an upgrade of Silverlining after sys 7 is released, in any case; but more generally what is it about sys 7 that requires reformatting, if this is indeed tha case? Would this not be a first for a MacOS upgrade? Carlo. You don't need to reformat... The article (which I read earlier this evening) suggests reformatting because it is a good time to, not because of any need. He suggests that a drive should be reformatted occasionally to get rid of bad sectors, etc. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Alan D. Danziger, AKA | Reality is a function of the delusion factor 753 South St,Waltham MA 02154| If at first you DO succeed, Congratulations aland@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu | For those about to Rock, we salute you MB 3130/Brandeis University | Life's a beach & then you drown! Catch the Wave PO Box 9110 Waltham MA 02254 | (617) 894-6859 (617) 647-3720 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=