[thelist] Suggestions for Mac test environment

Robert Goodyear rob_goodyear at yahoo.com
Fri Aug 24 13:22:11 CDT 2001


Another less-intrusive option I use for QA testing on MacOS is to utilize Apple's System
Picker utility, which allows multiple bootable system folders on the same partition. That
way all the Microsoft Extensions don't step on one another yet you don't need to
partition your drive (which always leaves me wishing I had given myself another 50 MB
here and there ;-). You can find the utility on http://www.VersionTracker.com by
searching for "System Picker."

HTH

/rg


--- Arlen.P.Walker at jci.com wrote:
> Sorry for the delay, had my head down. Next week looks even worse, if it
> matters. Anyhoo:
> 
> >One convenience of working with Mac OS 9.x and prior, is you can install
> >multiple versions of the same browser, on the same drive, without any
> system
> >trickery.
> 
> Wrong. MSIE 4.5 and 5.0 can't co-exist properly without a bucketload of
> trickery. Oh, you can install 4.5 and 5.0 on the same machines, but when
> you launch 4.5, you're not seeing 4.5 anymore; you're actually seeing a
> bizarre hybrid of 4.5 and 5.0. When 5.0 installs, it replaces some of the
> libraries used by 4.5, you see. So you're running mostly 4.5 code, but with
> some 5.0 thrown in. You want a real test of 4.5, you need another system.
> 
> Luckily doing things like that isn't hard. Just make multiple partitions on
> the disk, and put a your test systems together. Then you can choose which
> partition to boot from via startup disk.
> 
> It's also been my experience that installing 5.0 breaks AOL, but that just
> could be because AOL is broken anyway. ;{>}
> 
> >You can run both OS 9 and X on the same box, although you might find it
> >clunky as OS 9 runs in it's memory bubble in OS X, and you might find some
> >software (browser) behavior to be wonky.
> 
> Or you can dual-boot, boot in OS 9 when you want to test from it, then flip
> to the startup disk control panel and choose to reboot into OS X. Works
> quite well for me, anyway.
> 
> Have fun,
> Arlen
> Chief Managing Director In Charge, Department of Redundancy Department
> DNRC 224
> 
> Arlen.P.Walker at JCI.Com


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