Dual boot with lion and mavericks?

Hi Guys,
I want to updgrade to mavericks as well as keeping lion to run my old soundcard { no new drivers will be made } so, I'm thinking of using my external hard drive to try and install mavericks onto and Dual boot my MBP.
is this possible?
Cheers, Iain.

iainwh wrote:
Hi Mate,
I'm currently backing up my hard drive and then I'm going to download mavericks.
After the download completes you get this screen:
Quit without pressing the install button. Go to the applications folder and make a copy of the installer, move the copy out of the applications folder. When the copy is done doubleclick the installer in the applications folder.

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However, data can be shared if kept on a third data volume.
Hi Baltwo, thank you. Is sharing user data on a third volume an effective way to keep SL generated data and Mavericks generated data consistent and usable by both? If only one OS is running at a time and therefore the shared data is only used by one OS at a time each change, any change, would seem to be saved sequentially. What are the pitfalls and risks doing it this way? Especially since,
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