SCSI HD IIGS: Question - How to boot both 8-bit and 16-bit software?

[sebugg@presby.edu (Stephen Buggie)]

sebugg@presby.edu                                            Nov 1 1994



         BOOTING BOTH 16-BIT AND 8-BIT PROGRAMS FROM IIGS HARD DRIVE:
             HOW SHOULD HARD DRIVE BE PARTITIONED AND FORMATTED?
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I have a 31 meg SCSI Seagate hard drive, used for the past year with my IIe
but now connected (Rev. C Apple II SCSI card) to my IIgs.  I have used it
as a single 31 meg partition, using only 8-bit programs.   Nine megabytes
if software is installed.

While playing with Copy II PLus 9.0, I damaged the software and now it will
not boot from the hard drive.  This then is the time to reformat the drive
for 16-bit IIgs software.

What I want to do is to be able to boot my 8-bit software (still used
heavily), _and also boot_ from the hard drive some 16-bit applications
such as games, etc.

QUESTIONS:

Can both ProDos-8 and GS/OS be booted from the same HD partition?

If they must be on separate partitions, what will be the best way to do it?
(I figure 8 megs for ProDos-8 and 23 megs for Prodos-16.)  Which partition
should go first?

I have a six disk set of backups called "System 6.0.1" but no docs.  Is this
version better than GS/OS? Without docs I have done nothing with those disks.
I also have a "System 6" book published by Quality Computers.  Is System 6
the best?  Is it hard to install on the hard drive?

Step-by-step advice will be appreciated.  Right now I am booting from
slow floppies.....

BTW, the 31 meg hard drive functions perfectly.  The software found no
bad blocks among 62000 on the hard drive.  Even though its a Seagate,
there are no bad blocks......   B-]

Advice appreciated!