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From: philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Two system folders on same disk (= death?)
Message-ID: <1990Nov18.010558.2130@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 18 Nov 90 01:05:58 GMT
References: <39636@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <4133@idunno.Princeton.EDU> <1990Nov17.174407.23497@wpi.WPI.EDU>
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In article <1990Nov17.174407.23497@wpi.WPI.EDU>, macman@wpi.WPI.EDU (Chris Silverberg) writes:
|> In article <4133@idunno.Princeton.EDU> bskendig@dew.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig) writes:
|> 
|> >The trick to using two (or more!) System Folders on a single disk is
|> >that you have to make the computer think that one of them isn't a
|> >valid System Folder.  The way I do this is to create a new folder
|> >(which I usually call `Finderfolder'), and drag the Finder of the
|> >unwanted System Folder into it.  As long as the Macintosh doesn't see
|> >the System and the Finder files in the same level of the same folder,
|> >it won't bless that folder.
|> 
|> I do it a little differently, which probably just yeilds the same results...
|> but this is what Apple recommended so here is how I do it:
[instructions deleted]
Isn't this a bit tedious/complicated for someone who just wants to be able
to occasionally switch systems? Another possibility - use disk partitioning
software, and put each system in a different partition, then use the
Control Panel to change the startup device to the other partion to switch
systems on the next reboot. I haven't tried this. Does anyone know if it
will work?
-- 
Philip Machanick
philip@pescadero.stanford.edu