On 04/08/2011, at 9:55 AM, Robert Miller-Eves wrote:
> > I need to continue using Macromedia Freehand MX and Photoshop CS2 in my work > as I'm familiar with them but aware that OS Lion does not support them. > Is it possible to run 10.6.8 from an external Drive (and use Lion on My > computer Drive (iMac 27")? If so how does one select which OS to start up > with? > I have a fairly reasonable clue about this issue but would appreciate some > Expert advice > Thanks in advance! Hi Robert, I would suggest a better way is to do what I have done. I cloned my OS X 10.6.8 system using Super Duper (you can use Carbon Copy Cloner if you prefer) onto a bootable External FW Drive. Then purchased Lion OS X 10.7 from the App Store and installed Lion on an external FW Drive. This way I can boot into Lion for testing purposes before I decide if I want it on my main work MacBook Pro. By doing this, my work MBP is not being disturbed by any ‘glitches’ that I might find using Lion. You can use a USB External; Drive if you wish, I just prefer using FW drives (of which I have many ;-) Very important: You first must format the external drive in ‘GUID Partition Table’ & Format: Mac OS Extended (journaled) otherwise you will not be able to boot from the drive. (If you require details how to format an external drive, please post back & I’ll include instructions. Then when I find some time to do some testing of Lion I just: Connect the FW Drive to MBP Go to System Preferences > Startup Disk (Under System) Click ’Startup Disk’ (it will now show both your OS X 10.6.8 HD & your OS X 10.7 HD Select the OS X 10.7 HD Click ‘Resart’ Your computer will restart into Lion. When you have finished testing Lion out, just restart back into OS X 10.6.8 Cheers, Ronni 17" MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt" 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard OS X 10.7 Lion Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
