Stephen, I have Lion on an external drive and it boots, not had a problem... I've got my startup disk that boots 10.6.8 on 'startup', but if I wish to use lion I just hold down the option key when starting up my mac... To install lion, I loaded 10.6.8 onto an external drive and installed lion on it from iTunes... Dixie
> 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 > > > > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
