Dual Boot G4 with 10.2 and 10.3?

[royalmail]

I have a G4, a brand new 80GB HDD, and I need to configure it to dual boot OS 10.2 and 10.3.

Can anyone tell me how I need to go about doing this please?

 

[wags22]

Ok, this is actually fairly simple to do.

I'm assuming you have the install disk for both 10.2 and 10.3.

Start by installing one of the OS's, probably best to start w/10.2. Make sure you install it on a partition, not the whole drive. Size of partitions is your call. I would recommend 4 20GB partitions, 2 for OS and 2 for data.

Once you have that OS installed. Reboot from the other OS install disk and install to a different partition.

Once you have both OS's installed you can boot from one into the other via the System - Boot disk option. Or you can hold down the Option key while booting up to select the disk to boot from (not real sure on this, and I'm writing from work on a PC, check Apple website or Help on OS X)


Hope this helps.
Wags

Wags

"Everything you have read is a lie, including this.

 

[ObviousTroll]

I haven't looked at this in a while, but didn't Mac once support having multiple releases on the same partition?

 

[wags22]

I'm not sure.

I do know that with OS X, you had OS X and OS 9 on the same partition. But I prefer doing it with separate partitions just to keep things clean and unconfusing.


Wags

"Everything you have read is a lie, including this.

 

[royalmail]

Thanks all.

Very simple in the end. I just installed 10.2 on one partition and then 10.3 on another partition as suggested. All worked out fine.