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Hey,<br>
<br>
You can certainly put two bootable OS X partitions on a single disk for
both Intel and PPC... I use that for diagnosis and imaging of both
platforms.<br>
<br>
What do you want the Windows XP partition to do? Boot camp? or is it to
boot a PC?<br>
<br>
To make a PPC image... you simply do a full install of OS X on a G4 or
whatever... restart it in target firewire mode... create an image of
that disk (with disk utility) and use net restore to "image" that
partition on the external drive.<br>
<br>
Net restore: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.bombich.com/software/netrestore.html">http://www.bombich.com/software/netrestore.html</a><br>
<br>
(erase target disk, set target as boot disk... don't verify)<br>
<br>
Same with an Intel OS X install...<br>
<br>
I'm wondering if you can do the same thing with boot camp... I can see
that partition with boot camp of course but I have not attempted to
make an image of a boot camp partition and restore it to another HDD.<br>
<br>
To make the multi-boot disk I used disk utility to create three
partitions... PPC, Intel, and Storage.<br>
<br>
Perhaps if you boot an Intel Mac off of the Intel boot image on your
external you could install boot camp and create a windows partition
like that... and just do the boot camp install as you normally would...
I mean technically you can use the Mac entirely off of that external so
it should act the same as far as thats concerned.<br>
<br>
If that all works than you may be able to boot any PPC (10.4) off of
one partition, boot any Intel Mac into 10.4 off of the second... and if
your lucky you may be able to boot any Intel Mac into Windows XP off of
the third(?) boot camp partition that you created within the Intel OS X
partition on the firewire drive..<br>
<br>
Thats my best guess on this... tell me if it works.<br>
<br>
I think I might try this right now... :-)<br>
<br>
Cheers, and good luck!<br>
<br>
Brad Chaffee<br>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Brad Chaffee
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MIT Information Services & Technology
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re:<br>
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On Aug 15, 2007, at 11:51 AM, Felix Kreisel wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Hello. I am trying to build a Firewire disk into an external tools-
and-diagnostics device. I want to partition it into bootable disks
for: Intel Mac OS X, PowerPC Mac OS X, WinXP.
I readily concede that you can take a firewire drive, build an Intel
OS X and boot from it.
You can also take a firewire drive, build an PowerPC OS X and boot
from it.
However, when I tried to make two partitions with separate
architecture OS X systems on each, the disk turned out not to be
bootable.
Am I asking for too much? Is my wish realistic?
Felix Kreisel - Systems Engineer,
Plasma Science & Fusion Center, MIT
617-253-8625 <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:fjk@mit.edu">fjk@mit.edu</a>
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