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Bootcamp Lion & Snow Leopard? (unnecessary)

I was under the impression (perhaps mistakenly) that bootcamp could be used to house another OS on your Mac (like Linux)- in which case being able to have Snow Leopard (with Rosetta) and Lion would have been a pretty handy workaround as I really don't want to lose my PPC software like Sigma Chess (particularly the HIRARCS engine which is excellent and cost me a bit).

As I've linked to in my edit and have read since there may be a better solutions- I just wanted to make sure I wouldn't have to choose between Lion and my applications. (I've also reported my post requesting its removal and tried to indicate its redundancy; however I thank you for your reply and clarification).
 
Yes you can have multiple partitions with different versions of OS X on each. Or, you can install to an external and boot from that.

As long as the version of OS X in question is compatible with your Mac, you can select your boot partition by holding the option key at startup, or by the Startup Disk PrefPane.
 
Darth.Titan said:
Yes you can have multiple partitions with different versions of OS X on each. Or, you can install to an external and boot from that.

As long as the version of OS X in question is compatible with your Mac, you can select your boot partition by holding the option key at startup, or by the Startup Disk PrefPane.
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Thank you very much Darth.Titan, that is good information indeed and exactly what I was hoping for.
 
Bootcamp is the software that help you install NON-MAC-OS-X (usually Windows) on a Mac. Multi-booting does not require bootcamp.

You meant multi-boot, and yes it's possible if your model supports the OS in question.
 
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