Apple's got you there. Mac OS's no longer boot from external drives, at least the last time I tried. You gotta have a machine with slots and extra drive bays to do that. bummer. Also Lion is still download only - no disc.
Also -- my opinion - partitioning sucks and is possibly dangerous. Drives are cheap these days, just get another one. sqb On 9 September 2011 02:51, Keith Clarke <keith.cla...@clarkeandclarke.co.uk>wrote: > Interesting approach Dixie. I was thinking about maybe creating a Lion > partition on my system drive and then creating a Parallels Lion VM but using > an external drive may be simpler and indeed, introduce a longer stick! > Best, > Keith.. > > On 9 Sep 2011, at 10:05, John Dixon wrote: > > > Keith... > > I can't speak for others... I'm running Lion on an external drive at the > moment on a macBookPro... using a very long stick ..:-) > > Dixie > >> Folks, > >> What's the current view on whether to upgrade to Lion for LC development > machines yet? > >> > >> Have any of you expert developers upgraded your primary Macs to Lion and > got inside the cage - or is it still being treated as a 'foreign beta' OS to > be isolated and poked at, cautiously, through the bars, with a longish > stick? > > > >> Keith.. > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > -- Stephen Barncard San Francisco Ca. USA more about sqb <http://www.google.com/profiles/sbarncar> _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
