is it possible?

[Andrew McVinnie]

Hi

I have PowerMac 5500 with a 2 gig hard drive.
I made my Mac Partition 100 mb and installed OS 9.1 on it just fine.  I 
did not however do a normal run of the mill install. I did a custom 
install by turning everything off, no internet utils, no quickdraw, no 
text to speech, none of that, just Mac OS 9.1, and I even went further 
by doing a custom install of the MacOS, and checked the box for "mac OS 
for this machine only" as opposed to the 2 other check boxes, "Minimum 
OS requirements" and "Mac OS for any machine".

It installed on the 100 Mac partition, and even have 20 mb to spare.

No need to do anythin else, unless you plan on using Mac OS also. All I 
need it to do is boot to the Xboot extenion, allow me to choose linux, 
and thats the last I see of Mac OS 9.

Andy


On Tuesday, June 3, 2003, at 08:54 PM, Bert Knabe wrote:

> On 06/03/2003 09:23 PM, "Mike Murphree" <mike@tropo.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Tuesday, June 3, 2003, at 03:23  PM, Bert Knabe wrote:
>>
> *Snip in interest of space*
>>>
>>> It doesn't need much (if any) HD space to unpack files. I've been
>>> building
>>> "Trouble Disks" on zip 100's since 7.6.1 with the OS, Diskwarrior,
>>> Norton
>>> Utilities and TTPro on the disk. The latest ones (with 9.1) have 3
>>> megs free
>>> space, and none is used when I boot from the zip. So 70-80 meg should
>>> be
>>> adequate.
>>
>> Funny but installs to 100 and 200 MB partitions failed miserably for
>> me...
>>
>> Mike
>
> Maybe it handles removable media differently than fixed media? After 
> all, if
> it needed space to unpack files, bootable CD's would be impossible as 
> they
> exist on the Mac now - no HD necessary on the computer.
>
> I thought I'd done a 100 meg boot partition before, but I'm probably
> misremembering. If I have time I'll try it, write down exactly what I 
> do
> (which will be the same as for a boot zip disk) and if it works and 
> wants to
> know, I'll post it here for a minimal boot disk.
>
> Bert
>
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