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    From Bill Law@BillLaw@Kemba.Com to comp.sys.mac.system on Friday, July 04, 2003 18:57:42
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    Greetings,

    Our iMac G3 350 now has 2 boot partitions on its new disk. One has Mac
    OS 9.0.4 and the other has Mac OS 9.2.2 (someday to be Mac OS X). I
    wanted, and expected to see, a different set of desktop icons depending
    upon which disk was booted. But alas, no matter which disk we boot the
    same set of icons is always on the desktop.

    How can we disable or circumvent this so that the desktop is different
    with each boot disk?

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  • From tacitr@tacitr@aol.com (Tacit) to comp.sys.mac.system on Friday, July 04, 2003 23:51:11
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    How can we disable or circumvent this so that the desktop is different
    with each boot disk?

    Use OS X.

    In OS X, each user has his or her own Desktop.

    In OS 9, each disk has a Desktop. When you mount a disk, you also mount that disk's Desktop. Since you mount both partitions no matter which partition you boot from, you also mount both partition's Desktops regardless of which partition you boot from.

    I'm curious, though--Why don't you want to mount both Desktops when you switch boot partitions?

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  • From gkar@gkar@myrealbox.com (Strider) to comp.sys.mac.system on Saturday, July 05, 2003 10:52:30
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    Bill Law <BillLaw@Kemba.Com> wrote:

    Greetings,

    Our iMac G3 350 now has 2 boot partitions on its new disk. One has Mac
    OS 9.0.4 and the other has Mac OS 9.2.2 (someday to be Mac OS X). I
    wanted, and expected to see, a different set of desktop icons depending
    upon which disk was booted. But alas, no matter which disk we boot the
    same set of icons is always on the desktop.

    How can we disable or circumvent this so that the desktop is different
    with each boot disk?

    Okay - with two partitions you have two drive icons. Let's say you named
    them MacOS 9.0 and MacOS 9.2 -

    Now, while you have two different partitions, you have only one desktop.
    Let me demonstrate.

    having booted with MacOS 9.0, open that drive and make an alias of some
    program from that drive. Put it on the desktop.

    reboot with MacOS 9.2, open the drive and make an alias of a different
    program from that drive. Put it on the desktop.

    This is your desktop with both drives mounted.

    Let's unmount MacOS 9.0 - select it and go up to the file menu and eject
    it (or drag the icon to the trash) Now that you've unmounted the drive
    it's icon is no longer there - and neither is the program alias from
    that drive.

    If you restart booting with MacOS 9.0 you can unmount the MacOS 9.2
    partition and you'll lose that icon as well as the program alias from
    that partition.

    - - - -

    If you want a visible indicator of which OS you have booted with the
    easiest way to do it would be to select a different desktop picture for
    each one. You could also apply a different icon to each partitition. The
    boot partition's icon is the one on top.
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  • From John Seal@johnseal@indy.net to comp.sys.mac.system on Monday, July 07, 2003 02:14:46
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    In article <BillLaw-AAF87A.17320205072003@nnrp.fuse.net>,
    Bill Law <BillLaw@Kemba.Com> wrote:

    how can
    we prevent the 2nd partition from being mounted when the other partition boots?

    Some 3rd-party disk drivers (such as Intech's HD Toolkit, and probably
    others) allow setting a flag on a per-partition basis, indicating
    whether or not to mount the partition at boot. Partitions with that
    flag set can be mounted manually after boot, if you need them.
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  • From John Seal@johnseal@indy.net to comp.sys.mac.system on Monday, July 07, 2003 02:20:37
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    In article <BillLaw-AAF87A.17320205072003@nnrp.fuse.net>,
    Bill Law <BillLaw@Kemba.Com> wrote:

    how can
    we prevent the 2nd partition from being mounted when the other partition boots?

    Some 3rd-party disk drivers (such as Intech's HD Speedtools, and
    probably others) can set a flag on a per-partition basis indicating
    whether or not to mount the partition at boot. Partitions not mounted
    at boot can be mounted manually later, if you need them.
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  • From Wesley Groleau@wesgroleau@despammed.com to comp.sys.mac.system on Sunday, July 06, 2003 22:16:56
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    John Seal wrote:
    In article <BillLaw-AAF87A.17320205072003@nnrp.fuse.net>,
    Bill Law <BillLaw@Kemba.Com> wrote:

    how can
    we prevent the 2nd partition from being mounted when the other partition >>boots?

    Some 3rd-party disk drivers (such as Intech's HD Speedtools, and
    probably others) can set a flag on a per-partition basis indicating
    whether or not to mount the partition at boot. Partitions not mounted
    at boot can be mounted manually later, if you need them.

    What I'd like is a way to make a partition
    read-only when I boot OS 9.2.2

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