Morning, Mac Pro has 4 internal drives, OS X Boot disk irrelevant as too where installation is placed in this collection. Windows drive or partition has to be Drive Bay 1?
My Regime for Mac Pro is: Drive 1 OS X and relevant Software, Users etc, This Drive is Cloned once installation complete with Cloned drive removed to safe place. (Archived Monthly) Drive 2 working Libraries, Imagery , Audio, regularly used stuff I require to complete projects (cloned, archived weekly). Drive 3 being project I am working on as is Drive 4 normally being a mirrored RAID of Drive 3. All Drives single partitions. Once project complete I archive on and offsite or give client one of the mirrors. I have other drives with Window installations and Linux installations I drop in and out accordingly using option key to select at boot, as I Firmware Protect machines. Personally I removed my SL installed drive replacing with brand new one installed Lion then required software. So if something does need SL I just drop in and away I go, as if machine never touched. Must mention I use OS X server for intranet email (imap), VPN, and file servers, backup devices. Company eMail is externally controlled by Web Host via IMAP. Remember that Lion is a "Major Upgrade," as it removes all possibilities of running Software that has not been converted to 64bit and Lionised. Hope helps? Cheers `RobD... On 22Jan2012, at 11:06 am, Pat wrote: > I am cautiously dipping my toe into the Lion pond. I installed Lion on the > MacMini that minds the EyeTV. Now I am thinking I would like to install it > on the Mac Pro, but I want to keep the functioning Snow Leopard. > > I have kept all WAMUG letters about installing Lion. Most of them speak of > installing it on an external disk. The Mac Pro has 3 internal hard disks, > the 2 secondary disks are partitioned for various purposes. There is one > totally empty 700 GB partition available. My question is, is it safe (and > possible) to install Lion there? I have encountered other software that > insisted it had to be installed on the primary disk, where SL currently > resides. > > Or would it be better to SuperDuper the SL into the empty partition and put > Lion on Disk 1? > > Another question: I know that the same copy of Lion can be installed on more > than one computer. Is this the case now for other Apple software bought > through the App Store? > > Thanks, > Pat > -- 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> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- 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> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
