Minimum OS9 install for Oldworld and BootX?

[Pete Peters]

SHAWN: Dax said he had a Beige G3, so your excellent suggestion to use 7.5.5
does not apply.

DAX:  You *MUST* subscribe to this list otherwise you'll never know the joy
of an Inbox that's impossible to keep up with, lol.

Cheers.


Pete


-----Original Message-----
From: yellowdog-general-admin@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
[mailto:yellowdog-general-admin@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com]On Behalf
Of Shawn Dunn
Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 5:19 AM
To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Subject: Re: Minimum OS9 install for Oldworld and BootX?


On Wed, 17 Apr 2002 10:13:43 +0100
Paolo Cordone <pghc@eircom.net> wrote:

> At 4:01 -0500 on 17/4/02, Michael J. Denton wrote:
>
> >I agree. If you can use OS 8.6 since it has a smaller install footprint.
> >Using a custom install I was able to reduce my OS 8.6 install footprint
> >down to about 80 megs.
>
> I have also installed 8.6 on a partition of about 250 Megs. It works
> well and leaves just enough space on my Mac OS disk to do some work,
> if necessary.
>

Why use 8.6?  7.5.5 works on pretty much everything up till the G3's were
released, and will install into a partition less than 50MB, and is perfectly
BootX Happy, or at least has been on all of my oldworld junk.