I 'm needing to install OS X Mavericks onto a MacPro that currently has Snow Leopard Mavericks ...

[G+_Eric Harrison]

I'm needing to install OS X Mavericks onto a MacPro that currently has Snow Leopard. Mavericks will be installed on a SSD. I'm wanting to permanently hide the HHD with Snow Leopard on it from the SSD with Mavericks just so I don't add any files to it by accident. It's a MacPro that uses ProTools and I'm wanting to install Final Cut Pro X on the SSD. Any Ideas?

[G+_Michael Anthony Bishop]

I am not sure if this command works on Mac Pro but you could remove the snow leopard drive and start the computer with command R pressed. Then boot from the cloud with the empty drive.

 

Apple will install the original system snow leopard. Then upgrade to Mavericks on this drive.

 

Put the old drive back and choose were to boot from on startup.

 

The command R works for the notebooks. I think you should check this for the MacPro also. Hope this helps.

[G+_Martin Smith]

http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/running-windows-anything-else-your-mac/104279-how-hide-boot-camp-partition.html

 

In the above post, you can prevent a drive from auto mounting in OS X. This is done by finding it's UUID and adding a 'no auto' line to /etc/fstab. VIFS and diskutil are your buddies... Above article is for a different reason but the same applies... Good luck!?

 

Ps. Don't forget to choose the right format type for your drive, it won't be ntfs as in the article. ?I think hfs is the right type indicator from memory.

[G+_Eric Harrison]

Martin - It doesn't show me the UUID of any of my drives.

[G+_Eric Harrison]

Never mind. Instead of typing diskutil info "drive_name", i used diskutil info / and it came up.

[G+_Martin Smith]

Cool :) I think the issue is if you do the main disk /dev/disk1 for example it picks up the EFI partition which has no UUID. /dev/disk1s2 for the second & main partion on OS X works a treat...

[G+_bryant thompson]

you can buy it from the appstore as a download,   download it completely, save it off to a thumb drive, the .dmg file is in the installer, that's your file.