Minimum OS9 install for Oldworld and BootX?

[Shawn Dunn]

Actually, the Beige G3 is an oldworld machine, and 7.5.5 will work fine on it, IIRC

		--Shawn

On Wed, 17 Apr 2002 09:40:10 -0700
"Pete Peters" <ppeters914@attbi.com> wrote:

> 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.
> 
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