>> Bad news! I don't have a mini dock or disk drive yet!
>> As you can imagine, I'm *really* paranoid about crashing my system
>>under these circumstances. I have an idea in case I do, but am
>>not sure if it is safe. Let me know what you think of the following.
>> My day to day system is in folder A, a backup system is in folder B.
>>I put A on my hard disk, I put B,in a folder, in a folder, on my hard
>>disk. When I start up the first system found is A, and if A is ok, the
>>Duo never looks for B. If A gets trashed, the Duo looks lower in the
>>hierachy until if finds B, it boots, and I can repair A and restart.
> Bad idea. When you create a System Folder on a Macintosh disk, a little
>Macintosh icon should appear on that folder in the Finder. That Mac icon
means
>that that folder has become the "blessed folder". Even if you have multiple
>System Folders on the disk, only one will be the blessed folder; only one
>will have that Mac icon. At startup time, when the Mac is looking for a
System
>Folder to boot from, it doesn't rummage all over the disk looking for one.
>It goes to the blessed folder and uses the System there. If that System
Folder
>is corrupted for some reason, the Mac doesn't care whether there are any
other
>System Folders on that disk or not; it goes and looks for another disk to
boot
>from instead.
Since it goes to another 'disk' to look for a system folder, couldn't you make a hard partition on your HD and have system folders on both of them? Have your primary drive designated as the start-up drive, and make
the partition big enough to hold the other system as well as a couple of utils
or whatever. This would only work if the original system file became
