two copies of Snow Leopard on one hard drive...

[snouter]

Can I make two partitions and install and boot one of two installs of Snow Leopard off one internal hard drive?

I'd like to make one SL install a dev environment with Apache, php, mySQL, coldfusion, svn, etc.

I'd like to make the other SL install a general browsing and casual user environment.

 

[Adidas Addict]

Can I make two partitions and install and boot one of two installs of Snow Leopard off one internal hard drive?

I'd like to make one SL install a dev environment with Apache, php, mySQL, coldfusion, svn, etc.

I'd like to make the other SL install a general browsing and casual user environment.

Could you not just have 2 users? You could 'install for this user only'.

 

[atari1356]

Yes, you can.

First, back your computer up.

Then boot off of your Snow Leopard disk and use the "Disk Utility" program to partition your hard drive. Note that everything on your hard drive will be erased, so make sure you have your files backed up.

Then you'll be able to install Snow Leopard on both partitions, and boot from either partition.

Alternatively, you might be able to use Boot Camp Assistant to make a second partition without erasing your first one... but I'm not sure.