[G4] OSX and OS 9

[Dale Hoffman]

The citation from "The Missing Manual: OS 10.3" can't be argued with. 
I question  though, how much time and effort should be spent 
accomodating OS9 as a separate operating system when clearly it is 
only around to keep applications alive which have not made the move 
to OSX. I agree with David. The second drive will be much more useful 
as a backup or scratch disk for applications which use them.

DaleH

>Carol is on the right path in here thinking.
>
>The following is taken from "The Missing Manual"
>(10.3) Appendix "A" Installing Mac OS 10.3 ..pages 672
>& 673.
>
>The Partitioning Question...
>In the coming months and years, you'll save yourself a
>lot of trouble and time if you keep mac OS 9 and Max
>OS X on two different drives. this kind of setup
>offers serveral advantages:
>
>    * It's much easier to switch between the two
>operating
>      systems at startup time. (You may hear this
>feature called
>      dual booting.)
>
>    * Troubleshooting Mac OS 9 or Mac X is much easier.
>
>    * You don't have to see, or try to distinguish,
>your Mac OS
>       9 and MAC OS X folders all mixed together in the
>single
>       hard drive window (two Applications folders, two
>System
>       folders, and so on).
>
>Ric   
>
>--- Crandon David <tabdave at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>>  No offense, but I don't think that's a good reason.
>>  You are better off
>>  simply using the second drive as a full backup of
>>  your main drive. You
>>  can clone your main drive to the backup
>>  everyonceinawhile.
>>
>>  David
>>
>>
>>  On Oct 24, 2004, at 9:41 AM, Carol wrote:
>>
>>  >
>>  >
>>  > Dale Hoffman wrote:
>>  >>
>>  >>> I am thinking of purchasing OS 10.3 (Panther)
>>  and installing it on my
>>  >>> Sawtooth G4 400 on a 2nd hard drive to keep OS 9
>>  and OS X separate.
>>  >>
>>  >> Carol,
>>  >> May I ask why you want to keep OS9 and OSX
>>  separate?
>>  >
>>  > Mainly because I can.  I have two internal hard
>>  drives.
>>  >
>>  > Carol -
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>rick
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