Leopard on HD1 and Tiger on HD2 ??

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Leopard on HD1 and Tiger on HD2 ??

I have upgraded to Leopard and found that my CS2 and some other programs are not compatible. Can I install Tiger on my 2nd internal HD and when I want to use Tiger compatible programs boot from that drive even though Leopard is on my Master drive?

PowerMac Quad G5, Mac OS X (10.4.10), 8.5gb memory, super drive, two 500gb sata hd, nvidia geforce 7800 gt video

Posted on Jan 11, 2008 12:41 AM

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Answer 1

MrKenito

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Jan 11, 2008 1:39 AM in response to corkscrew

I believe so. If HD2 has Tiger and CS2 installed on that drive, you can boot that drive using Startup Disk in the System Preferences.

I perform this method whenever I upgrade to a new OS X release. This way I can test all applications before updating my main drive.

I hope this helps.

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Answer 2

DonH49

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Jan 11, 2008 4:23 AM in response to corkscrew

yes you can just make sure you use each respective Disk Utility to set up each hard drive.

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Answer 3

macjack

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Jan 11, 2008 4:26 AM in response to corkscrew

corkscrew wrote:
I have upgraded to Leopard and found that my CS2 and some other programs are not compatible.

Are you sure, I'm running PS CS2 on 10.5 with no issues?

-mj
macjack@gmail.com

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Answer 4

Jan 11, 2008 4:28 AM in response to MrKenito

I have two partitions on an external firewire connected hard disk.
One partition has a backup of Tiger as it was before I installed Leopard.
The other partition is a current backup of Leopard from my internal disk.
Both partitions are bootable.
The Leopard backup was done with Carbon Copy Cloner.
The Tiger backup was done with SuperDuper.

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