At 12:52 pm -0400 4/24/02, Phil Daley wrote:
>
>Can you install the MacOS to the third hard drive?
>
Yes. Of course. And this may be the source of some of the confusion.
Let me describe a system somewhat less complicated than my own.
The system has three hard disks. On hard Disk One there are
directories called "System Folder" (which contains OS 9.1 and all of
its original and user added extensions and preferences), "New System
Folder" (which contains OS 9.2.2 and etc.) and "Old System Folder"
(which contains OS 8.5 and etc.). Disk Two contains a folder named
"System folder" which contains OS X (which contains a Classic folder,
but let's not go there). Finally, Disk Three contains a folder named
"Historical System Folder" which contains OS 7.6 (and all of those
weird old add-on extensions that broke with OS 8, along with the
normal OS 7.x stuff) and a folder called "Virgin Master 9.1" (which
contains OS 9.1 exactly as supplied by Apple with no user added
extensions or etc.).
Any of the System folders on any of the disks can be chosen as the
boot system. This example generalizes to n hard disks with {Sum of i
from 1 to n of } n(subscript)i p {where p = (number of Systems on
disk n)} = totals Systems available.
Think of it this way: Suppose you had a Windows machine with three
hard disks. On one disk you might have three "Windows" folders:
Windows 98, Windows XP and Windows 95. On the second disk you might
have just one "Windows" folder (though for consistency I think I have
to make this a Linux boot folder...). On disk three you have a
"Windows" folder for Windows 3.x and yet another "Windows" folder
which was a copy of Windows 98, but one which no installer had ever
perverted by modifying its registry and stuffing messed-up DLLs down
its throat. Now imagine that you could choose any one of them as your
boot system and that, no matter what you installed or messed about
with while under a particular system, only your boot system would be
affected -- all of the others would remain as they were.
If all of that makes your eyes cross (it does mine...) then think of
it this way: Multiple completely isolated systems on one or more hard
disks; without weird partitioning schemes and boot-loader hacks: Just
choose a startup folder and you're there on your next restart.
Best wishes,
-=-Dennis
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