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Re: trying to run Tiger X.4.11 on separate drive

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Salut Dushan

In article <4f7bcc82$0$11836$c3e8da3$12bcf670@news.astraweb.com>,
 Dushan Mitrovich <dushanm@nnips.net> wrote:

> My regular OS is SL X.6.8, but I tried running Tiger X.4.11 on a 
> separate hard drive so I could use an earlier free version of Crossover 
> to run a Windows program.  
> 
> Since I still have Tiger on a separate hard disk on my Mac, I thought I 
> could just restart from that disk and use the earlier Crossover in that 
> disk's Applications folder.  But when I try to start that Crossover, 
> nothing at all happens.  

So you start from the separate disk with 10.4.11 installed?
What do you mean by "nothing at all happens"? Nothing bouncing in the 
dock? No log entries?

> Has installing SL on a separate hard disk 
> stepped on something and broke it, or did installing the new Crossover 
> under SL munged some settings?  

Should not.

> I thought using separate disks for the 
> two OSs would prevent this sort of interference.

That is also my understanding ;-)

Cheers
Andreas

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trying to run Tiger X.4.11 on separate drive Dushan Mitrovich <dushanm@nnips.net> - 2012-04-03 22:22 -0600
  Re: trying to run Tiger X.4.11 on separate drive dorayme <dorayme@optusnet.com.au> - 2012-04-04 16:41 +1000
    Re: trying to run Tiger X.4.11 on separate drive Dushan Mitrovich <dushanm@nnips.net> - 2012-04-04 17:52 -0600
      Re: trying to run Tiger X.4.11 on separate drive dorayme <dorayme@optusnet.com.au> - 2012-04-05 17:52 +1000
        Re: trying to run Tiger X.4.11 on separate drive dorayme <dorayme@optusnet.com.au> - 2012-04-05 17:59 +1000
          Re: trying to run Tiger X.4.11 on separate drive Dushan Mitrovich <dushanm@nnips.net> - 2012-04-05 12:50 -0600
            Re: trying to run Tiger X.4.11 on separate drive dorayme <dorayme@optusnet.com.au> - 2012-04-06 07:07 +1000
              Re: trying to run Tiger X.4.11 on separate drive Dushan Mitrovich <dushanm@nnips.net> - 2012-04-06 10:35 -0600
                Re: trying to run Tiger X.4.11 on separate drive Dushan Mitrovich <dushanm@nnips.net> - 2012-04-06 10:59 -0600
  Re: trying to run Tiger X.4.11 on separate drive Andreas Rutishauser <andreas@macandreas.ch> - 2012-04-05 06:04 +0100

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