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From: peter@suntan.viewlogic.com (Peter Colby)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: 6.0.x and 7.0  boot selection.
Message-ID: <1991May29.135950.26830@viewlogic.com>
Date: 29 May 91 13:59:50 GMT
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In article <43810@netnews.upenn.edu>, jeffe@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (george) writes:
|> :
|> :One caveat on this method:  I have not tried it on a disk with multiple
|> :partitions, but it ought to work the same way.
|> 
|> Well, how about it. Any brave souls out there tried keeping 6
|> and 7 on different partitions of the same drive?
|> 
	I've been doing this ever since I installed System 7. I use
Silverlining which supports hard partitions. I have a partition which is my
boot volume for 6.0.5 and another partition which is my boot volume for
system 7. All my applications and data files are on additional partitions.
The boot volumes contain ONLY the files needed to successfully boot and
configure the appropriate system.
	Switching systems takes a little time but no effort. I use the
DA provided with silverlining to set the "mount at boot time" flag for
the boot volume I want, and turn off the same flag for the boot volume I'm
switching from. Then I restart from the special menu and go get another
cup of coffee.
	Works for me....
	peter c
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