On Feb 18, 2010, at 11:41 PM, deadwinter wrote:
Hi folks: I thought I had a partition for 10.2 and another for OS9.2, but upon closer examination it looks like I have OS 10.2 and a folder labeled OS9 applications, OS 9 System, etc. In the "Startup Disk" control panel, I can choose that the system use the OS9 system folder, which will make it boot into OS9, and viceversa. Can someone enlighten me as to why the previous owner would run it like this as opposed to there being two separate partitions? Do I gain anything? Lose anything?
The way it is is the default way Apple installed OS X, so the previous owner didn't do anything.
In the VERY early days of OS X (prior to 10.2) I reccomended using a separate partition for OS 9 because it seemed to be more stable. After 10.2 it's not necessary unless you want one environment with just the basics for Classic, under OS X and one environment with tons of extensions, etc for OS 9, in which case a partition makes a lot of sense.
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