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From: wb1j+@andrew.cmu.edu (William M. Bumgarner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: 2 systems on 1 hard disk
Message-ID: <4WwqS4y00V4DICjGg6@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: 31 Jul 88 18:31:32 GMT
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Organization: Carnegie Mellon
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the easiest way to keep to seperate system/finders on a hard drive is to keep
two system folders.  The key to this plan is to always keep one of
system/finder pairs apart from each other.  (If I had to do this, I would keep
a folder named Finder Folder in each system folder, and would drag the finder
of the system i want to disable into that folder and then drag the finder of
the version I want to enable out of the other folder).  Until Dolf.Starrveld's
software comes out, that is about the only *safe* way to keep two systems on
one hard drive.

Which brings up an important rule of Mac Software:

Never, ever, ever, under any circumstances keep to system/finder's on a disk
without the ability to lock all but one out of the boot proces.  DON'T copy the
system folders off of commercial software packages.

Sorry about the harping on a subject that has been harped on before, but I just
fixed a system that died becuase Finder 6.0 tried to use System 4.0; not a
pretty sight.

B.Bum

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