NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #20/NN_1992_20.iso/spool/comp/sys/mac/misc/16324

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From: [e-mail] (George C. Hawkins)
Subject: How do I temporarily partition an in use disk?
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Keywords: hard disk partition
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Organization: Trinity College, Dublin
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 12:05:51 GMT
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Well the subject says nearly all. I just have a single hard disk
in my machine and I want to install alternative system versions
without touching the one in use, so I'd just like to be able to
temporarily make say a 16Mb partition to install onto, without
disturbing the rest of the disk. I imagine this might be tricky as
I presume a partition reflects some underlying division of the disk
surface, so while I'd like a bootable partition I could live with
some kind of pseudo partition which looked like the real thing but
was actually just some software fake (like the way MountImage can
make disk image files look like real disks).

Thanks for your time, yours,


George.

ps I have been using a 3Mb RAM disk to try and do this but it's
just not big enough to install anything but a minimum system onto.

pps I'm using system 7 if that's of relavance.

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george lives at:
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