Re: Creating a bootable Firewire disk - how many bootable partitions?



In article <311020071057071577%nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
nospam <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

'all sorts of reasons' ?? the only reason is if you frequently need to
boot the installer, and that is a fairly rare occurence.

It's always there, and I don't have to go looking through my drawers if
I need it. It can be added to and updated and I can use it to create a
bootable DVD of my most recent system with some useful utilities added
if I keep it under 8 or whatever gigs.
--
W. Oates
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