Kris Tilford wrote: > On Dec 4, 2008, at 11:24 PM, Charles Davis wrote: > >> "deliberately unblessed' ????? I've never heard of doing that for >> any reason. >> >> The OS9 installations are 'blessed' as a part of the installation >> process. No special effort needed. >> >> The having 2 instances of 'OS9 installation' doesn't cause any >> problems. > > I don't think this is true. I believe each separate partition can have > only one blessed MacOS System and one blessed OS X System. You can't > have two of either MacOS or OS X.
You're right that a volume can only have one blessed OS 9 system folder but it can have 2 (or more) OS 9 system folders (with different names), one of which will be bless. > > I believe Yersinia is correct that an unblessed OS 9 folder can be > used as Classic while booted under OS X, but will not boot natively. I > don't believe either MacOS or OS X "allows" for two blessed Systems > because an installer will not install a 2nd System, and if you attempt > to drag & drop or clone a 2nd System onto a partition that already has > a 1st System, one of these will become unblessed so that there is only > one blessed System, and if you attempt to bless the 2nd System, the > act of blessing the 2nd System will unbless the 1st. OS X doesn't really have "Blessed" systems. The two OSes are fundamentally different. OS 9 has all of the system files in one folder with a specific file / folder structure WITHIN that system folder. The system folder can have any name but the default is "System Folder". OS X doesn't really have the concept of "blessing" and the term is usually not used with OS X. OS X requires elements of the system be located in the /System and /Library folders as well as the various invisible files / folders, /bin, /private, /sbin, /usr and other folders and files which are all part of the Unix core of X. The only way you could change from one OS X system to another is to move / rename all those folders and files and you would have to ensure the proper permissions. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway" --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
