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I would like to migrate over to Lion, but my Mac and a variety of software apps are vital to my business. So I'd like test the waters with Lion, but be able to revert back to Snow Leopard if necessary. I'd also like to restart from scratch with a fresh install vs migrating all my apps over. I think reinstalling what I use from scratch would be faster and cleaner than trying to sort through all the apps and crap I've accumulated over the last 5 years. (Haven't done a fresh install since Leopard came out. Migrated to SL, but that bought everything with it.)
I have a 500gb internal drive in my MBP. At the moment I have 249gb free. I suspect that about half of that is crap I don't use any more.
Hypothetically, can I do this? (although others will I'm sure suggest other ways to reach the same end goal)
I'd like to partition off 200gb and install Lion in the new partition so I can dual boot SL or Lion. I want to take my time methodically setting up Lion. If at any time, I run into a software deal breaker that forces me back to SL (ie Outlook 2011 turns out to be a buggy as some claim), I can just go back to the SL partition.
Here's the part I'm not sure about... After a few weeks, once I'm completely comfortable with the Lion, can I delete my original SL partition so that the newer Lion partition becomes the sole volume on the drive? At that point, I'd be looking to boot automatically to Lion just like I had reformatted and installed over top of SL.
I have a 500gb internal drive in my MBP. At the moment I have 249gb free. I suspect that about half of that is crap I don't use any more.
Hypothetically, can I do this? (although others will I'm sure suggest other ways to reach the same end goal)
I'd like to partition off 200gb and install Lion in the new partition so I can dual boot SL or Lion. I want to take my time methodically setting up Lion. If at any time, I run into a software deal breaker that forces me back to SL (ie Outlook 2011 turns out to be a buggy as some claim), I can just go back to the SL partition.
Here's the part I'm not sure about... After a few weeks, once I'm completely comfortable with the Lion, can I delete my original SL partition so that the newer Lion partition becomes the sole volume on the drive? At that point, I'd be looking to boot automatically to Lion just like I had reformatted and installed over top of SL.