> Hi everyone, I know it's possible to have more than one system installed on
> one hard drive - but how would I go about doing this? I have an external
> 250MB hard drive that I use for my testing and backup drive. It has 7.1 on
> it, which has never been an issue before, but now with this customer's
> Powerbook, it needs a flavor of 7.5.x to boot it. I would like to have both
> systems on the hard drive, so I don't run the risk of excluding very many
> computers. (And having 6.0.8 on it too would also be nice.)
Amber,
You can have more than one OS on a disk, but not on a volume.
You'll need to re-format the drive and partition it into two or more
volumes. THen you can install the OS of your choice on each volume. Wait
for one of the more knowledgeable listers to help you through it, I could
lad you off the path and not know it. After you get it done, an icon for
each volume shold mount to the desktop when you boot up, and you can use a
control panellike Startup Disk to designate which one you want to boot from
next. The Oss that youmentioed are older than the ones I use most of the
time and I don't remember the in's and out's of the older ones.
All the best,
R. A. Cantrell
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