[G4] problems with roundabout OS partitioning

[Mel]

I have OS 9 and OS X on different drives, same as different partitions, 
and have not had any problems with this arrangement. Some of my OS 9 
apps are on the OS X drive and some are on the OS 9 drive, but all 
behave properly.
Mel

On Sunday, February 23, 2003, at 12:36 PM, Lukas drake wrote:

>
> I wanted to put my OS9 and OSX on separate partitions. I was told by a 
> friend, after looking forever in Mac Help for any indication on how to 
> do it, that I would either need to use Norton or get a hold of 
> someone's OS9 install CD and install it on my new OS9 partition. 
> Instead I took the OS9 System folder and Applications and copied them 
> to the new OS9 partition drive. Then I erased the OSX drive and 
> reinstalled all the OSX software on that partition (excluding the OS9 
> install which comes in my OSX software restore).
> So in a roundabout way I put the different operating systems on 
> separate partitions. I opened an OS9 program install in OSX and it 
> recognized it and installed it on my OS9 drive.
> Are there going to be any problems from me partitioning my drives by 
> "cheating" this way? Like problems with the computer finding files or 
> the two OS talking with each other?
>
>
>
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