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From: peter@hari.Viewlogic.COM (Peter Colby)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Two system folders on same disk (= death?)
Message-ID: <1990Nov19.123741@hari.Viewlogic.COM>
Date: 19 Nov 90 17:37:41 GMT
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In article <1990Nov18.010558.2130@Neon.Stanford.EDU>,
philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick) writes:
|> [...]
|> 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

Works like a champ! I have a large HD with many partitions. Two of them
are
"system" partitions and they are duplicates of each other - except for
the
Apple system files - one is 6.0.7 and the other is 6.0.5. In order to
switch
systems, all I have to do is use my partition DA to exchange the "mount
on
bootup" flags for the 2 partitions and reboot.

Of course it's a lot harder when you have limited disk space and can't
afford
the extra (in my case, 8) Meg.

Peter C

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