[geeks] Anyone use XPostFacto?

[Sandwich Maker]

" From: "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm at mendelson.com>
" 
" On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 01:06:10AM -0400, Phil Stracchino wrote:
" >Hardware:  Bondi iMac, maximum memory (384M)
" >Software:  one OS9.2 partition, one incomplete and badly hosed OS10.2
" >partition, XPostFacto 4

i also have a bondi.  my mother and gf have imacs too, both newer.  at
the moment, we're all running 10.3.9.  my gf's is the only one likely
to support 10.4 right off.

" Xpostfacto is a strange beast. I have had trouble with different versions 
" working or not, and on one computer had to install MacOS with a late version
" of 3 and use 4 to actually run it.
" 
" []
" 
" OS X 10.3 and up boot a UNIX kernel directly from the partition.

in my limited experience - when you reinstall osx it leaves your old
installation in the 'previous versions' folder, still bootable.  does
installing 10.4 [for example] with xpostfacto still do this?  i'm not
interested in keeping os9 around but it sure seems like a good idea to
have a natively-supported os available!

" What I always do is to create an 8000 megabyte or less partition, install
" OS9 on it, install Xpost facto and then install OSX all on the same
" partition. If I have any other partitions, they are for data.

i like the idea of a root partition, a users partition, and an
applications partition if it turns out you need more than one root...
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