On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 04:22:17AM -0500, J wrote: : : On Tuesday, January 20, 2004, at 12:23 AM, W Lane wrote: : : >Which brings up an interesting issue, and one that can be argued : >forever. In my experience, folks who are new to computing SHOULD : >partition their Mac so that 9 and X are identifiably separated. [...] : : I agree that this was the worst thing to do. : In fact I don't like to use 9 with X myself and I know about these : things. If a machine is using X it doesn't open Classic ever. I have 17 : computers in my shop so I can afford to do this and use 9 on others if : need be. Of course, the notion of keeping old Mac OS 9 in a separate partition from OS X is useless on all new Macs since they no longer boot OS 9... -- Eugene Lee http://www.coxar.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/