Isolated dual boot with OS mavericks and mountain lion

I just created a dual boot between mavericks and mountain lion (1 physical drive with two partitions) but I'm having troubles where they each see each other. Bin/ lib/ etc are fine (i think) as they are added via environment vars but it seems as though the spotlight privacy directories are shared. For instance, I thought I could simply add the other partition to the Spotlight Privacy list, ie while using mountain lion add /Volumes/Mavericks to the privacy list. However, when I added the volume in one, it also appears in the other. Another issue I've encountered is that while compiling on ML, I was getting errors complaining about the 10.9 sdk.
So, can anyone advise on the proper way to isolate these two operating systems with a dual boot scenario?
Thanks
Adam

Create two partitions on the hard drive. Install each OS on its own partition. This will only work if the computer can be booted from either version.

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As the Mountain Lion installer consistently tells me that it wasn't possible to run the system on my computer I wonder whether there's a way to boot both, Mavericks and Mountain Lion once you have installed Mavericks.
I'm grateful for any advice.
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Alrighty, I do appreciate your time. I had already tried parallels and that was a huge waste of time. You blow away their support, by the way.
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Thank you Paul. I understad I just have one more question:
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The iR7105
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After installing all the Canon drivers mentioned above, the print server (Canon iR-ADV C9000s GX300V2.0US) shows up in the '+' drop-down in Print & Scan. Great, right?! I can configure the server directly and control the printer that way! Yay!
Nope. I get a warning: "Some of the software for the printer is missing. You may have to reinstall the software to be able to successfully print." I click Continue, since that's an option, and then I get "Setting up 'Canon iR-ADV C9000s GX300V2.0US...' The software for the printer was installed incorrectly. Please reinstall the software from the manufacturer." This time there is no option except Cancel.
What would be awesome now would be to know what software I need to reinstall. Since I just installed the UFRII and the PS software on a fresh Mac, I'm not sure what's missing.
So, back to manually installing with the IP address. From this point forward the results mimic those above, with variations for the printer's specific capabilities. The best driver option is still the non-PS, non-UFR version, and that 'best' option still won't control the finishing units. I must go through Command WorkStation to accomplish that.
Bottom Line
Because I am so close to having these set up properly, but not quite, I feel like I must be doing something wrong. Something small and subtle, probably, but hey, maybe it's something big and glaring! Can anyone help?

mapinoregon wrote:
The iR7105
The iR7105 doesn't show up automatically in the Print & Scan add-printer menus.
The Canon print controllers do not support Bonjour, so using IP > LPD as you have done is the correct procedure.
mapinoregon wrote:
The iR7105
The nondescript driver results in no setup options for the printer, so I know there's a problem.
There's no problem. This is how the PPD works on 10.8. For older versions of PPD it was necessary to configure the options. But with the latest versions of PPD, it is assumed that all options are available, even when the machine may not have them or supports them.
mapinoregon wrote:
The iR7105
In the print dialog I get finishing options that seem promising, including for our saddle finisher. However, the saddle finisher doesn't engage when I send the print job -- I have to assume this is because the print driver doesn't have a setup where I can tell it what model of finisher it needs to talk to?
It is not a lack of being able to set what finisher you have installed. You just cannot saddle-finish with the PPD. This is only supported with the full driver, such as the UFR2 or PS, because you need the additional plugins that are included with these full drivers to get the additional functions.
mapinoregon wrote:
The iR7105
Further, there are no options for printing to the printer's Mail Boxes, so I can't just send a file there and fix up the saddle stitch on the printer directly (a workaround we've used with various jobs in the past).
Again, this is due to the lack of a plugin to support the submission to the mailbox. So it is another limitation of the PPD.
And with you sending the print job to the mailbox in the past, you would have been using a full driver - not the PPD - to achieve this.
mapinoregon wrote:
The iR7105
However, after the job has run, I CAN go into Command Workstation 5.4.1.25 and adjust the settings on the job there, and then get it to run through the saddle finisher (or to the Mail Boxes). This is the best I have so far, but it's not very good.
If you can connect to the iR7105 with Command Workstation, then you must have a Fiery connected to it, such as the imagePASS-S2. So this would explain why the UFR2 and Canon PS v3.60 driver did not work. The Fiery does not support either driver. They are for the iR7105 that is using its internal Canon controller. Not the optional imagePASS (Fiery).
Now the issue for you with the imagePASS-S2 is that no 10.8 driver exists - the iR7105 was released in mid 2006. So you will have to use the Fiery Express driver, which has limited functions but it is better than using the Generic Postscript driver.
mapinoregon wrote:
The iR-ADV9065 and its GX300V2.0US server
After installing all the Canon drivers mentioned above, the print server (Canon iR-ADV C9000s GX300V2.0US) shows up in the '+' drop-down in Print & Scan. Great, right?! I can configure the server directly and control the printer that way! Yay!
Nope. I get a warning: "Some of the software for the printer is missing. You may have to reinstall the software to be able to successfully print." I click Continue, since that's an option, and then I get "Setting up 'Canon iR-ADV C9000s GX300V2.0US...' The software for the printer was installed incorrectly. Please reinstall the software from the manufacturer." This time there is no option except Cancel.
Like the iR7105 with the Fiery attached, the GX300 connected to the ADV C9065 does not support the UFR2 or PS v3.60 driver. But at least there is a 10.8 driver available for this model. Here is a link to the GX300 page from Canon USA.
Now with this driver installed you can add it by selecting the "Canon iR-ADV C9000s GX300V2.0US" that appears in the Default Add Printer view (and the Nearby Printers window). The driver should be automatically found by the Mac, meaning the Use menu will be set to the correct driver. This will let you print and use most finishing features of the iR ADV C9065.
Hope the above helps you. Reply if you need more info.

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