Glad to hear you are making progress.
I think that it is a good idea to have OS X on more than one drive (or partition). I use intech's QuickBack (part of their SpeedTools Utility suite that is bundled with hard drives purchased from OWC or available direct from intech) to do weekly scheduled backups of the partition holding my main OS X system. Additionally, on another partition I have a "clean" OS X system installation that has not been modified since it was installed from the CDs. That's my ace in the hole in case I install something into my working system that corrupts it or makes it unstable--and I don't catch it until after the scheduled backup has also rendered my primary backup corrupt or unstable.
Do you follow that? Am I paranoid? Yes, probably.
Think of it this way. If you had another OS X installation on one of your other drives (or partitions), then you quite possibly could have restarted with command-option-shift-delete and achieved a restart from a secondary OS X system installation. (you may have to append a number key to this key-press configuration that coincides with the volume containing the OS you want to start from)
I have used RsynchX and PsynchX to perform scheduled backups, but QuickBack is easier for me to configure and I have it at hand, so that is what I use.
On Apr 7, 2005, at 5:54 AM, Thomas Baker wrote:
Or is it not such a good idea to have two OS-X's on a Mac?
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