On Dec 5, 2008, at 1:58 AM, 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 may be correct, seems like you likely are. BUT no one specified a single partition for the system. I've gotten so used to multiple partitions to separate things that if the 'norm' is a single partition, then I may not be visualizing things correctly. Maybe I'll try copying the OS9 system folder and see what happens. [Darn, that won't work --- two files with the same name is a NO-NO.] > > 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. > Yeah!!!! what you just said. BUT, multiple partitions will allow for multiple instances of 'blessed' OS9 systems. "Opt/alt startup" will show as many systems as are bootable. I.E. it doesn't just look at one partition.. Chuck D. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
