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From: biswa@galileo.berkeley.edu (Biswa Ranjan Ghosh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Two system folders on same disk (= death?)
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Date: 16 Nov 90 22:48:38 GMT
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A friend of mine wants to be able to switch between two different versions
of the system on her Mac+, one is a U.S. version, the other a Thai version.
My initial reply to her was, no,no,no, you must never have more than one
system folder on the same disk.

On second thought, I wonder if this is too restrictive. Is it o.k. to keep
two system folders on the hard disk, as long as only one of them has the
name "System Folder," so that only that one is the "blessed" folder? Then if
I rename the system folder to something else, and rename the other folder to
System Folder, will it become blessed?

Then I could picture the following:
Start up the Mac with the current system folder, let's say the U.S. version.

Decide that I really want to use the Thai version, so I rename the system
folder to Other System, rename the Thai version to System Folder, and reboot.

Then will the computer use the Thai system folder?

Or is there a better way to do it?
Or is this a *bad* thing to do?

Naturally, I will be eternally grateful for your responses, etc., etc.!

Biswa Ghosh
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