On Jan 1, 2009, at 12:07 AM, Jack Countryman wrote:
> > Or do the install with the cd online, then swap something in its place > later. Out of the four drives possible that way how many need to have > different boot systems on them? If the drive substituted for the > cd is to > be a data drive, it could be put online last and formatted etc. if > needed > then? > Not certain that I follow your thinking here!!! Sounds sorta 'WIntel' One of the beauties of Apple's partitioning/file system, is that any hard disk can have from 1 to many partitions. ANY of the partitions (on ANY of the hard disks) may be THE bootable system. AND any or all of the other partitions may also be bootable. HTH 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 g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
