Thanks, Chris. Yes, I had that concern about the option-key method as well. The startup-disk option in Disk Utility sounds like a workable method.
Thanks, teresa “Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough.”—Richard P. Feynman On Jun 3, 2014, at 9:48 AM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> wrote: > While I haven't tried it, you should be able to partition your drive to > appear as two separate disks with disk utility. Depending on how full the > current drive is you might be able to shrink the existing partition enough to > make room for Yosemite. Then you would install Yosemite on that new drive. As > far as switching startup drives, you should be able to do that by going to > System Preferences and picking which drive to start from and then reboot. > While you can also do this by holding down the option key while booting, I > suspect that way is not accessible since there won't be an OS running yet to > host voiceover. > > CB > > On 6/3/14, 12:40 PM, Teresa Cochran wrote: >> A follow-up thought I had was that if I want to switch partitions, could I >> go into the recovery partition and choose one as the startup? This at least >> would be accessible with VO. >> >> Teresa >> >> “The golden age of science fiction is twelve.”—Pete graham >> >> On Jun 3, 2014, at 9:19 AM, Teresa Cochran <batsfly...@me.com> wrote: >> >>> I was reading on Ars Technica about creating a test partition to try >>> Yosemite beta. My question is: how accessible would the boot process be? >>> Would I have to count arrow-key presses or some such similar thing? >>> >>> thanks, >>> >>> Teresa >>> >>> “Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too >>> dark to read.”—Groucho Marx >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
