is it possible?

[Suzanne Payne]

--On Tuesday, June 3, 2003 9:23 pm -0500 Mike Murphree <mike@tropo.org> 
wrote:

> Funny but installs to 100 and 200 MB partitions failed miserably for me...

Don't forget, you only need a minimal OS.  After the initial boot in order 
to install BootX and attendant kernel images, it's never actually going to 
boot into MacOs again.  (Actually, it  need never fully boot at all, you 
can boot off an external device an place the relevant items into the system 
folder.) And you don't *need* 9.1 either.  Just put the earliest system 
(read: smallest) on the computer; the one that came with it will be fine. 
Do a custom install.  You don't need network, you don't need translators, 
you don't need printing.  You don't need all those Apple Extras folders. 
Start up in safe mode and see what isn't used....you don't actually need 
any of those items in order to boot the machine enough to get to BootX.  As 
Bert said, it's certainly possible to make bootable Zip 100 discs which 
also contain recovery/repair software with megabytes to spare!  And damn 
handy they are too! :)

Suzanne