[DM-MUG] Making extra SATA bootable

[Bailey Ford]

"How stripped down can I make it??? Safely???"

That's the real question. When you did the install of OSX on the  
drive, did you go into options and deselect bunches of stuff? That  
would be a safe way to get a good trimmed down system. The iApps and  
the stuff in your applications and utilities folders - those are safe  
to trash. I wouldn't go deleting files from the Library or System  
folders unless you were quite sure what you were doing. There is a  
wee bit of fat in there, but when drives cost less than $0.50 per gig  
you are going to save yourself less than a few dollars worth of space  
and spend more than a few dollars worth of time to do it.

There is a little bit of software that looks OK - Applimiser. (http:// 
www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/15044) This little app will remove lots  
of the other language localizations from the system to save drive  
space. It's $12. You could save most of the same space by just  
deselecting those other languages when you do the install.

Trimming the system down like this does bring to mind for me the  
question of why you are doing this. I read that this will be a media  
drive - pretty much just for storing movies, tunes, and pics. You  
want the thing to be bootable so that you can run maintenance  
routines on your other drives while booting from this one? What is  
your thinking on this?

ciao,
bailey

On Jun 8, 2006, at 7:35 PM, Victoria L. Herring wrote:

>> Can SuperDuper do that? I use it as my backup solution and it can  
>> make
>> devices bootable. I wonder what would happen if it was set to not  
>> backup
>> anything, and make a device bootable?
>
> I ended up using Disk Utility to erase then using my Tiger disk to  
> reinstall and the Seagate now has Tiger on it and is  
> bootable...SuperDuper does make a disk bootable but I wasn't trying  
> to back up data, just make it a bootable disk.
>
> Now the next Q is whether I can delete any stuff off the Seagate  
> [such as all those iApps and other things I won't really need] --  
> how stripped down can I make it???  Safely???
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