Boot into OS 9 and X at startup on the same partition!

[mr_mac_x]

Ha! That's it! I'm king of the world(well, maybe not...)!!! I was reading rharder's comment in another thread and it gave me a awsome idea: Could you make a small (I mean 50MB) that had an Alias to a OS 9 system folder on another partition? Then when holding option at startup, it would allow you to select your OS 9 system folder, but they would be together on the same partition !

Call me lazy, but I don't want to repartition my drive to find out

If someone tries it, I'd like to hear.

 

[sithious]

hmmm... interesting idea, but what exactly is the point, apart from being interesting?
would that procedure be of any advantage? why not just partition the 'normal' way?

 

[mr_mac_x]

Well, I like having everything on one partition. I also like being able to change OS's at startup. Then again, I never really boot into OS 9 anymore, so it doesn't help me much...

Oh, and normal is relative. I only have one partition on my main drive with OS 9, OS X, and the rest of the world on it. I like not having to care which disk I'm saving to, and which disk my programs are on, and so forth.

 

[rharder]

I'm with mr mac. I'd prefer to have everything on one partition. Right now I have a partition just large enough to hold OS 9.1 and the basic apps, but I would have liked to try the mini-partition trick with symbolic links.

-Rob