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Old 01-04-2016, 11:48 AM
Darryl Ramm Darryl Ramm is offline
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Default Re: New Disk Utility Partition feature in El Capitan

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Originally Posted by Ormond View Post
Darryl - I have not partitioned a drive in some years. The last time I did (Snow Leopard) I had to zero format the entire disk first.
My SSD is running El Capitan. I have an MBox3 and it's driver is not supported yet on El Cap.
WHAT I WANT TO DO is partition my drive and install Yosemite on it (as well as El Capitan) so I can run ProTools.
I don't want to erase everything on my drive and go through the backwards OS install that Apple has made difficult.

SO, I was hoping I could make an 8GB partition on my drive and simply install Yosemite on it.
You absolutely can. Shrink the current boot partition down in size and just create a HFS+ partition for Yosemite. Do you have a Yosemite installer? Read online how to build a full Yosemite installer.

Think/read about what you want to do with the existing recovery partition. Wether you want to make that Yosemite or leave it alone, etc.
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