OT: adding OSX

[Bill Vlahos]

Curry,

While what you suggest might be possible (although I doubt it), I think 
your caution is unwarranted. Switching from OS X to 9 and back is very 
simple-just select the correct Startup Disk control panel/system 
preference and restart the computer.

Even if you could boot from a USB hard drive, the performance would be 
poor. This would be feasible if you had a FireWire drive.

Bill Vlahos

On Tuesday, February 12, 2002, at 03:26  PM, Curry wrote:

> If anyone in the know could reply off-list....
>
> I want to test software on OSX, but my budget doesn't allow buying a new
> computer for a while. I'm considering buying OSX alone, and this is 
> where I
> need advice. I want to keep my orginal hard drive untouched, and just 
> boot
> OSX from another drive now and then for testing or fooling around with 
> OSX
> software. Does the OSX package have a CD that can boot the computer on 
> OSX
> 10.1? Or, can it be installed on a zip drive and use that as the startup
> disk? Or would I have to get a second hard drive? (This is iMac Rev B, 
> so
> only USB, no firewire.)
>
> Thanks very much,
>
> Curry Kenworthy
>
>
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