Dual Boot 2 vers of OSX

[Imprint]

Hi there, I'm a PC person by day but have to test my work on a mac as well (web developer), I know very little about macs in general so I thought I'd come here and ask a question.

Is it possible to make a dual booting mac that runs two different versions of osx?

I currently have ver OSX 10.3.9 installed on my mac testing machine but would like to run OSX 10.4 tiger as well, because there is a slight difference in versions of Safari that I must test my work on.

Any thoughts or help on the matter is greatly appreciated.

Thanks

 

[D3v1L80Y]

Just install 10.4 on a separate partition and you are good to go.

 

[Imprint]

thanks very much.

 

[humdedum]

y? they're all rubbish

 

[doki_2]

Hi humdedum,
I read you very short message and think that were more nice to write more details what you mean. "all rubbish".
Once a greek speacher told on the market to the people that every greek is a lier.
If every greek lier also he is a lier so on... If what you write also rubbish may be the other things can be not rubbish....Just more details please next time
Best regaads,
doki

 

[iWonder]

I LOVE when people waste their time (which they will NEVER get back no matter what.. time moves on..) just to stir up trouble. Also, he wanted to do it in detail.. notice his "mac" specs.. must have been his pc.. because i don't remember a G chip reaching that number..... meh..

 

[Imprint]

hey guys i've run into a slight problem.

We can't find out install disc for panther, can we use disk utility to make a parttition of the current HDD for a tiger install?

I've loaded up disc utility and the partition section of the current HDD is all greyed out.

is it possible to make like a ghost image of the hdd, complete with the OS installed similar to nortons ghost on a pc?

 

[Avalon]

Disk Utility can't partition a harddisk without erasing it, which of course isn't possible if you run the system from that disk.
You can use Carbon Copy Cloner to make an image of your drive, and save it on an external harddisk:
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/13260
It even makes an image of a running system.

Then you can boot from the Tiger install DVD, open Disk Utility, make two partitions (HFS+ journaled), and install Tiger on one.
After that, you start up with the installed system, and use CCC again to restore the image on the second partition. Now you have 2 systems, and can choose which one to boot with the Startup Disk preference in System Preferences, or simply hold the ALT-key when starting the Mac. You'll get a choice from which one to boot.