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From: alexis@ccnysci.UUCP (Alexis Rosen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Multiple systems on a HD
Message-ID: <1596@ccnysci.UUCP>
Date: 15 Apr 89 06:38:15 GMT
References: <7715@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Reply-To: alexis@ccnysci.UUCP (Alexis Rosen)
Organization: City College of New York
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In article <7715@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> jhc@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
(James H. Cloos Jr.) writes:
>I will be purchasing a HD soon, but for now will be using with macs at a
>couple of public sites here on campus.  One site has plusses, the other
>SE's.  I'd like to boot off the drive at each of the sites.
>
>I assume I'll have to have both SE specific and Plus specific versions of
>the SYStem on the disk, most likely in separate system folders.

Don't waste your time. This is really a lot simpler than you think. Any
normal SCSI HD will boot off of any SCSI-capable mac. Just make sure you
interleave it for a Mac Plus (usually == "use Mac Plus drivers" for most
installers) unless it has a built-in cache (most drives >=80 MBytes, except
the Seagate). If you don't do this, it should still run, but it could be as
slow as a floppy on a Mac Plus (though the SE would be a bit faster).

*DON'T* mess with multiple systems! Just install the "Regular SE System"
(or whatever Apple calls it) with Apple's standard installer program. It will
work with the plus as well.

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Alexis Rosen
alexis@ccnysci.{uucp,bitnet}
alexis@rascal.ics.utexas.edu  (last resort)