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From: ech@cbnewsk.att.com (ned.horvath)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Running System 6 & 7 together...
Message-ID: <1991May1.210912.8015@cbnewsk.att.com>
Date: 1 May 91 21:09:12 GMT
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From article <21020@brahms.udel.edu>, by moyer@brahms.udel.edu (Eric Moyer):
> 
>   Ok, say you create two system folders on your main HardDrive, one
> for 6.X.X and one for 7. A little utility program called the "blesser"
> can be used to make the 6.x.x system your standard boot system, but then
> how to you get back to 7.0? Blesser doesn't recognize system 7.0 as a real
> system. Switch-booting (command-option doub click I think) normally lets
> you swith systems but doesn't appear to recognize 7.0 either.

The suggestion from Greg Marriott at Apple is to maintain the unused
System file in a subfolder of its System folder (I call mine
"unused System." Catchy, huh?).  To switch systems, drag the active system
into its hidey-hole, then drag the one you want to use into its proper
folder (now the Finder and System are in the same folder), and reboot.

This works fine for me, on both a Mac II and a Mac Plus (the latter has
a third-party hard drive).

=Ned Horvath=
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=Ned Horvath=
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