is it possible?

[Bert Knabe]

I have used the "Minimum OS Requirements". With that you can probably get
the space requirement down to about 65 megs, maybe less. If you're
installing Linux on a 10 gig or larger drive, it's a pretty nice trade-off,
using less than 1% of the drive for the bootloader.

Bert

On 06/03/2003 11:15 PM, "Andrew McVinnie" <lintila@mac.com> wrote:

> 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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