Upgrade to Lion

[Peter Haworth]

Since I never got that far, can't comment on that but I did get the idea
fro a post on the web specifically about dual booting Snow Leopard and Lion
so maybe it can work?
Pete
lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>



On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 2:21 PM, stephen barncard <
stephenREVOLUTION2 at barncard.com> wrote:

> I don't think Lion likes to be installed on partitions. It wants to own the
> disk. As part of the the installation process, it makes it's own, secret
> partition that acts as an 'emergency disk' when you boot, hear the chime,
> and hold down command and R.  Pretty useful, unless one's partitions
> unravel. This emergency partition has Disk Utility, Reset admin password,
> Startup Disk and a Safari based help utility that's live on the net. One
> can even install a fresh version of Lion on a new or old disk in that mode.
>
> On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Peter Haworth <pete at lcsql.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi Stephen,
> > I concur that Apple are treating their user base as dumbasses these days.
> >  It's probably fair to say that there are a substantial number of them
> that
> > fit that moniker!  The problem is that Apple doesn't always provide a way
> > to tell them "I'm not a dumbass and I would like to not be treated as
> > such".
> >
> > During the process of installing Lion, I too found a disk problem.  In my
> > case, it wasn't a failure per se but when I tried to create a second
> > partition to hold Lion, DiskUtitliy flagged an error.  Don't recall
> exactly
> > what it was but I had to boot from my Snow Leopard disk and run
> DiskUtitlty
> > from there to fix it.
> >
> > The weird thing was that even after fixing it, I still couldn't create
> the
> > second partition.  There was plenty of room on the disk for the new
> > partition but when I kicked off the process of creating it, I got an
> error
> > that there wasn't enough disk space to re-partition the drive.
> >
> > Pete
> > lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 1:36 PM, stephen barncard <
> > stephenREVOLUTION2 at barncard.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I've found that 'export' is the key to getting around not having a
> 'save
> > > as...'. Not a natural workflow to me, and I have to remember which apps
> > are
> > > and are not part of the 'new paradigm'.Stephen Barncard
> >
> San Francisco Ca. USA
>
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