System 7.0 and A/UX

[Tim Myers]

In article <1991May16.105935.14623 at agate.berkeley.edu> 
dpassage at soda.berkeley.edu (David G. Paschich) writes:
> Will System 7 and A/UX coexist with each other happily?

If by using the word "coexist" you mean System 7 and A/UX must be at the 
same place or at the same time you are out of luck on both counts unless 
you have two Macs.  :-)

If you have enough disk, you can install *LOTS* of different versions of 
various operating systems, but you must choose which single one you want 
to boot.

> I've got A/UX on order... and want to know if it's worthwhile to install
> System 7 on my Mac now or if I'll have to rip it all out when I finally
> get my copy of A/UX.

It depends.  Will you have enough room on you hard disk(s)?

> Or here's a possible scenario:  System 7 on my internal drive with A/UX
> in a Unix partition and System 6 in a MacOS partition on my external drive.
> Will it work?  Will I be able to easily switch-boot among the three?

It depends.  Are all your disks Apple-issue?  If not, do you have 
partitioning software and drivers for System 7 and A/UX 2.0?

Here's what works for me:

I have a Mac IIfx with an Apple Internal HD80SC with standard A/UX 2.0 
partitions (includes a nominal System 6.0.5 boot partition).  I also have 
an external CDC Wren III with a Mac partition for System 7 and an A/UX 
user partition I created with SilverLining.

Using the control panel, I select the startup device that corresponds to 
which operating system I want to use -- System 7 or A/UX (via System 
6.0.5) -- and then restart.

Not a problem.

++Tim

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Tim Myers
Senior Software Consultant
Novell, Inc.
"Macintosh: the only GUI that doesn't SUCK."