startup disk will allow you to pick specific partitions. but the
only way to see if it works is to try try try...
bob
>Mark A. Kippert wrote:
>
> >I'm thinking of partitioning a drive and putting different versions of MacOS
> >on them to use as emergency boot drives to hook up to other Macs that are
> >having problems.
> >
> >i.e. OS 8.1 for booting an 86040 machine on one partition while I have OS8.6
> >on another partition for PPC & G3/4 machines. . . [snip]
> >
> >This way I could go out to a clients site with one machine that would allow
> >me to boot any other machine and it would contain all the tools I need. No
> >additional CDs, floppies etc.
> >
boredom is the threshold to great deeds -- w. benjamin
own yr own self
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