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Lil
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on: December 03, 2006, 01:46
Hiya, I was wondering how I could go about this as I have a large hard disk partitioned as followed in my PowerBook 1400c/133: - 1GB : 'Macintosh HD' (7.6.1) - 1GB : 'Macintosh 8.6' (8.6) - 1GB: 'Applications' 7.6.1 works perfect but I presently need 8.6 to use the wireless card (it's not a genuine Lucent Wavelan, it's a 3rd party Wavelan) to transfer files (I should just get a compact flash card + adapter... Which I will when I have the money), but when I use the 'Startup Disk' control panel in 7.6 and switch to 'Macintosh 8.6' and restart, 8.6 boots but many of the extensions and control panels don't initailise and the fonts are very messed up. Is this conflicting with 7.6.1 and how do I resolve this? I tried rebuilding the desktop once but that didn't help  Any advice would be appreciated although I definitely wish to ditch 8.6 in the long run as 7.6.1 with SpeedDoubler is so much faster! Vicky |
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wove
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1024 MB Posts: 1363
Reply #1 on: December 03, 2006, 15:44
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Quote from: "Lil" Hiya, System 7.6 is faster than 8.6 indeed. I have a couple different hard drives in my 8600 and my OSes (7.6.1 and 8.1) do not seem to have the problem you describe. Perhaps rather than using the Startup Control Panel to select the startup system you would be better off using a utility like System Picker (available from Apple Downloads). I have had similar symptons when a 3rd party installer has not correctly chosen the right system to install its components too. I have also had similr problems caused when I have installed items by dragging them from one partition or disk to another. In particular this can result when one copies preference files, which will tend to reference files from its original install location. bill
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loverofmusic
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8 MB Posts: 10
Reply #2 on: February 12, 2007, 21:34
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You are both doing better than I faired. I had a single drive with 3 partitions (2 HFS and 1 HFS+) that held OS 7.6.1, 8.1, and 8.6. When booted into 7.6, I could "see" the 8.1 system but not the 8.6 partition on the HFS+ partition. Regardless, a trip into 7.6 was one-way. I was never able to boot into 8.1 with 7.6 installed. Delete 7.6 and I could boot just fine into 8.1 or 8.6 and bounce back and forth to my heart's content. I did like 7.6 and my solution was to create a 7.6 bootable disk image that I could copy onto a RAMDisk and reboot into 7.6. When I shutdown, 7.6 was "gone" and it would boot normally into 8.1 As long as on of the partitions was HFS, I could access files with one of the other OS versions. It wasn't ideal, but 7.6 is REALLY fast from a RAMDisk. I never tried an alternative utility for switching systems.
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Rafas
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32 MB Posts: 33 
Reply #3 on: February 17, 2007, 15:31
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I use "SystemSwitcher 1.1" aplication to switch betwen 7.6.1 and 8.6 in same HD partition. Also you can select diferents MacOS installed in diferents HDD. "HOW CAN I KEEP MULTIPLE SYSTEM FOLDERS ON ONE HARD DISK? (5.5) By far the best way is to divide your disk into multiple partitions, one partition for each system folder. Then use your formatting software to select the partition to boot from. This will, however, trash everything on your hard disk so back up first. Soft partitions like those created by Norton Utilities and other utility packages are not nearly as reliable or safe for your data as hard partitions created by a disk formatter like Drive7. If you don't want to repartition your hard drive, you can keep compressed archives of system folders you might want to use on your hard disk. To switch system folders you'll need to boot off a floppy or a second hard disk, trash the old system folder, and uncompress the new one. Just be sure that when you boot your Mac there's not more than one uncompressed System Folder on any one drive. Finally if you absolutely must keep multiple, bootable system folders on the same hard disk, Keisuke Hara's freeware System Switcher 1.1 or Kevin Aitken's System Picker 1.0.1 will adjust the boot blocks of the hard disk so you can pick which one your Mac will boot off from. If you put a copy in the Startup Items folder of your System 7 system folder, and specify it as a startup item in System 6, then whenever you start up you'll be offered a choice of systems. " Reference: http://fusfis.frascati.enea.it/Software/Macintosh/FAQ/System-Software.html#A5.5
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