Mac OS upgrade and stability

[Ted Joyce]

After belatedly reading posts below it appears I need to have a dual boot capablility.

Can I just install the latest Mac OS on a large external firewire drive, install Final Cut Express HD on it and designate that my boot drive? Would this work and still leave my M100 system as is?

I don’t want to have to repartition my internal boot drive into two partitions and install everything again into both just to experiment with HDV and Final Cut Express HD. I understand that my SCSI card & Drive arrays might not work properly with this arrangement but if I booted with them turned off might I expect success?

[Kieran Matthew]

I am running Media 100 8.2.2 XS on a G4 1.4DP under 10.3.9 and have had no problems whatsoever (OS-wise anyway). Personally, I have always upgraded the OS as soon as it comes from apple and, again, have never had problems – though I always wait until the current project I’m doing finishes before doing so.

Many people on the list have already moved to Tiger and report no problems either.

Hope this helps!

[Floh Peters]

[Ted Joyce] “Can I just install the latest Mac OS on a large external firewire drive, install Final Cut Express HD on it and designate that my boot drive? Would this work and still leave my M100 system as is? “

Yes, no problem with that.

[Ted Joyce] “understand that my SCSI card & Drive arrays might not work properly with this arrangement but if I booted with them turned off might I expect success?”

There should be no problems with that. But I would install at least the latest drivers for your SCSI card (even if you leave the drives turned off), since you don