Minimum OS9 install for Oldworld and BootX?

[Ken Schweigert]

Dax,

You can get away with a very small OS9 partition, if you can access
another OS9 machine via AppleTalk.  I have one install where the OS9
partition is only 40MB.

It's been a while since I did it, but from memory ...

When you install OS9, booting from CD, create two partitions; one 
at 40MB and the other as unallocated.  When you start the actual
OS9 install, and you get to the point where you can customize what
get installed, uncheck everything.  You should only have "core system"
to be installed.  Then procede with the install.  If I remember right,
the amount of space needed was around 32MB. 

When you reboot, make sure the Chooser is available.  If it's not,
you have to reinstall OS9, and add that in.  I can't remember if it
is included in the core system or not.  If it is, install the BootX
package on the other Mac and turn File Sharing on on that machine.
Go back to the future YDL box and mount the other Mac via the Chooser.
Copy all the files installed by BootX on to the YDL machine.  You should
be pretty close to 40MB now.  I think there was a few directories that
can be cleaned up to give you some more room.  Just be carefull not to
delete anything that is required by the system.  You can save some more
room by only copying over one of the ramdisk images for installation.
After YDL is installed, you can remove any of the ramdisks files and
reclaim some more space; in case you want to put a second kernel there.

Then just reboot, and select your ramdisk image from BootX and install.

Hope this helps.
-- 
-Ken Schweigert, Aspiring Network Administrator
Byte Productions, LLC
http://www.byte-productions.com
  

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[root@machine1 /root]# pdisk -i
Top level command (? for help): l
Name of device: /dev/sda

Partition map (with 512 byte blocks) on '/dev/sda'
 #:                type name             length   base    ( size )
 1: Apple_partition_map Apple                63 @ 1
 2:      Apple_Driver43*Macintosh            54 @ 64
 3:      Apple_Driver43*Macintosh            74 @ 118
 4:  Apple_Driver_IOKit Macintosh           512 @ 192
 5:       Apple_Patches Patch Partition     512 @ 704
 6:           Apple_HFS "untitled"        81920 @ 1216    ( 40.0M)
 7:     Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap             131073 @ 83136   ( 64.0M)
 8:     Apple_UNIX_SVR2 untitled        4232592 @ 214209  (  2.0G)

Device block size=512, Number of Blocks=4446801 (2.1G)
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On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 11:52:33PM -0700, Dax Kelson wrote:
> 
> I have a beige Mac G3.  It has a 4GB hard drive. It currently had Mac OS
> 9.0 on it (on the entire drive).
> 
> I don't care about Mac OS 9, I'm never going to use it, but apparently I
> need it installed to boot Yellow Dog with BootX.
> 
> My questions:
> 
> What is the recommended way to install Mac OS 9 so that it is as small as
> possible since I'm only going to use it for booting Yellow Dog?
> 
> Given my usage does it matter what version of Mac OS 9 I'm using (9.0,
> 9.1, 9.2)?
> 
> Dax
> (I'm not subscribed yet, so please Cc me on responses)
> 
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