[G4] OSX and OS 9

[Snow White]

My 2¢.  I keep OS9 and OSX on separate partitions on my cube and on 
separate hard drives on the desktop.  It has saved my ass ets many 
times as OSX collapsed with dubious RAM or other unforgivable abuses.

But I am amending my outlook here - I use separate hard drives for OSX 
10.3 and 10.2 with 9 on a partition.  The reasoning is simple - my 
computer will not boot OS9 so to be useful as a boot drive it must be 
some flavour of OSX.

I believe heavily in keeping it all separate.  I never need to 
re-install any more than one OS at a time and it does not effect 
anything with the other OS es.  Seems to me this 10 minute precaution 
at the very begining has saved me hours of re-install time.

jj


On 24-Oct-04, at 5:31 PM, g4-request at listserver.themacintoshguy.com 
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> OSX and OS 9
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> 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.