Hi,
Currently I have Mac OS X 10.6.8(Snow Leopard) as my main OS and I would like to know if I can dual boot Mac OS X Leopard and Mac OS X Lion ? I've created an extra partition for Lion.
MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Yup. That's how most of the folks who tested it were set up.
May I know what is the process or steps? Am downloading Lion from App Store now, most of the tutorial on YouTube is based on Lion Dev Preview.
Just select the new partition in the Installer. It will default to the one you're running Snow Leopard from, so click the button at the bottom (Show All Disks, or something like that).
You will need to partition the storage using Disk Utility to create a partion for Lion on the internal storage. If you have an external HD, you can create a bootable clone using SuperDuper or Carbon Copy Cloner and then boot from that drive and install Lion on the EHD. Then you have preserved all the internal storage the MBA has. The downside is this will be slower to boot and run because it's not on an SSD like the MBA, or of course you could purchase an external SSD however that kind of defeats the purpose of an SSD. 🙂
Thanks, I have create the partition already, so when I click on the OS Install App, I can choose the partition I want OS Lion to be install on?
So I should
1 make a partition for Lion
2 go to the App store from SL
3 download and install Lion to the second partition
4. then reboot to Lion.
My question is will my email, network, etc settings be accessible to Lion?
Can I open documents and compatible apps in my SL partition?
#4 is automatic.
Thanks for the info and help, manage to dual boot my system. May I know how to close or end this discussion?
BenedictLim wrote:
Thanks for the info and help, manage to dual boot my system. May I know how to close or end this discussion?
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