Dual Boot OSX Leopard?

[4God]

Sorry if this has been asked, I searched and didn't find anything quite like this.

I have Leopard installed on my main drive (MacPro). I was wondering if I could install Leopard again, but on another one of my internal drives for experimental purposes? Would I be able to choose which install to boot from? To clarify, I don't want to create another user account, I want to dual boot the same OS.

 

[Roy Hobbs]

Sorry if this has been asked, I searched and didn't find anything quite like this.

I have Leopard installed on my main drive (MacPro). I was wondering if I could install Leopard again, but on another one of my internal drives for experimental purposes? Would I be able to choose which install to boot from? To clarify, I don't want to create another user account, I want to dual boot the same OS.

I see no reason why this wouldn't work, I have had other version of OS X on external drives

 

[4God]

I see no reason why this wouldn't work, I have had other version of OS X on external drives

Did it mess with the other install? Were you able to choose which one to boot with? Can I set up multiple users the same way?

 

[XnavxeMiyyep]

Yes. You can choose which disk starts up in the Startup Disk section of your System Preferences.

On a MacBook, you can also choose which drive boots by holding option during startup, so I assume this would work for a Mac Pro as well.

 

[4God]

I see no reason why this wouldn't work, I have had other version of OS X on external drives

Yes. You can choose which disk starts up in the Startup Disk section of your System Preferences.

On a MacBook, you can also choose which drive boots by holding option during startup, so I assume this would work for a Mac Pro as well.

Cool, thanks you two. I'll be giving it a try today.

 

[ppc750fx]

On a MacBook, you can also choose which drive boots by holding option during startup, so I assume this would work for a Mac Pro as well.

Indeed. That's not specific to MacBooks -- all Intel-based machines support that feature.

 

[dejo]

Indeed. That's not specific to MacBooks -- all Intel-based machines support that feature.

As do PPC-Macs...

 

[ppc750fx]

As do PPC-Macs...

Ah. Good to hear. I knew they supported multibooting via OF, but I didn't recall whether the option key shortcut worked on all of them.

 

[4God]

Works well (should've expected it I guess 🙄 ). Thanks all. 😀