Minimum OS9 install for Oldworld and BootX?

[Iain Stevenson]

So, the only reason you may not want to use 7.5.5 is if you want to be able 
to test recent USB, IDE, network cards etc under MacOS.  This testing can 
be useful if you hit problems with Linux - just to see if the cards work - 
and newer cards may not have drivers compatible with 7.5.5.

  Iain



--On Thursday, April 18, 2002 6:32 am -0700 Shawn Dunn 
<sfalken@dumpsterdivers.net> wrote:

> 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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