Couldn't you have the best of both worlds by partitioning your Mac with Panther and Tiger?

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4 total messages Started by Craig_Busch Fri, 16 Feb 2007 15:26

#218

Author: Craig_Busch
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 15:26

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Hi,
To start off, I am running Panther on my Macs. My understanding is that you can either use a firewire drive or partition your hard drive and run a different operating system on it. That is, you can run Tiger on your Mac, but if you want to run Premiere 6.5 without issues, you can install Panther, Quicktime 6.5, and Premiere 6.5 on a separate partition or firewire drive and then you choose which OSX you want to use when you start your Mac. Seems like this would be a good solution for those who want to have Tiger on their Mac, and yet also be able to run Premiere 6.5 without the "issues."
I haven't done this and maybe it won't work, but the tech at work thinks it should. I may buy tiger and try it out.
If I am missing a piece of the puzzle on this, please let me know.
Thank you

Re: Couldn't you have the best of both worlds by partitioning your Mac with Panther and Tiger?

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Author: Wade_Zimmerman
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 07:34

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I know on a MacIntel you can safely have more than one partition to run several OS including Windows and that you can also boot from an external drive but I am not certain that is the case on a G5 and for some reason I doubt that it is true of a G4 but I could easily be mistaken about the G5 and the G4.

Re: Couldn't you have the best of both worlds by partitioning your Mac with Panther and Tiger?

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Author: olf
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 01:05

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Hi Craig, hi Wade,
yes, you can partition your drive and have as many bootable OS Xs as you like, no matter if G4 or G5 or Intel.
A firewire drive would also work but it would be slower than an internal HD.
You could also install a second HD internally (don't forget the jumper setting to slave), which is cheaper than buying a Firewire HD.

Installing 10.3.x on G5s (or later G4 Powerbooks) would be problematic on some models. The G5s since April 2005 and Powerbook G4s since October 2005 only run 10.4. You can check your model with the free "Mactracker".

Re: Couldn't you have the best of both worlds by partitioning your Mac with Panther and Tiger?

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Author: Craig_Busch
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 15:45

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Thanks Olf.
I was trying to get the information on this. I asked the tech at work and at the Apple store and they didn't see what it should not work. It may be that they were looking at just upgrading from a machine that originally ran an older version of OSX. So you can move forward, not backward.
Again, thanks for the information. I had my hopes up of getting a newer Mac and partitioning it or running a firewire drive off of it, but I guess I will have to stay will an older machine and Jaguar for running Premiere. I would like to think that for a number years that used machines capable of running Panther will be available.

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