On 25/06/2011, at 12:54 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote:
> > > On 24/06/2011, at 9:26 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: > >> Hi Daniel & Peter, >> >> Excellent posts! >> >> I’m tossing up whether to Install Lion on an external firewire drive (as >> Daniel is aware, I have heaps of spare drives ;-), OR “Install & Dual-Boot >> OS X 10.7 Lion & OS X 10.6.7" on my MBP? This way I would have TWO separate >> installations of Mac OS X, (Lion & Snow Leopard) on my MBP & can boot into >> Lion for testing purposes. >> If I find I don’t want to keep Lion, I can uninstall it without having to do >> a system restore from a Snow Leopard backup. >> i.e Create a 20GB partition for Mac OS X Lion (after of course BACKING UP my >> current Snow Leopard system). >> >> I would then still use Snow Leopard as my primary daily working system, but >> boot into Lion for testing. >> >> I will give this a lot more thought before I decide which way to go. >> But I would be very interested in your comments on which way I should go >> (watch it Daniel … if you suggest “where I should go, instead of which" :-) >> >> Cheers, >> Ronni > > One of the best investments I have ever made was the little NewerTech Voyager > hard drive dock which I bought from Daniel. This brilliant little device > allows me to have a virtually unlimited number of hard drives at my disposal. > The Voyager has a couple of Firewire 800 ports, in addition to a Firewire 400 > and a USB 2 port (with an eSATA port to boot), so I always have access to the > fastest backup technology available. > > Shortly after taking delivery of my nice shiny new 27" i5 iMac last week, the > first thing I did was to take myself off to Austin Computers and pick a > couple of new bare 1Tb hard drives for about $65 each. One of these is for my > constant Time Machine backup, and the other is for a weekly clone using > Carbon Copy Cloner. All I have to do is remember to pop out the Time Machine > drive each Saturday night and drop in the clone drive, ready for the > scheduled clone which will happen on Sunday morning at 9:00am. > > The point of all this is that upon the release of Lion, it will be an > extremely simple process to get another drive purely for the purpose of > testing Lion on a fresh clone of my hard drive AT THE TIME OF PURCHASE, and > not have to worry about upsetting any current apple carts. Thanks Peter for your comments, I appreciate you taking the time. I’m leaning towards a completely separate drive to test Lion on (& I have plenty of spare external FW Drives ;-). The only reason I was going to install it on a separate partition on my MBP was to save having to carry another drive in my computer bag if clients ask to see a demo of Lion. My computer bag already has extra drives in it to backup computers before I work on them (people that don’t heed my warning “BACKUP BACKUP”!) Thanks again. Cheers, Ronni 17" MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt" 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.6.7 Snow Leopard Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]>
