[DM-MUG] Making extra SATA bootable

[Jerry Heiselman]

You could always put a slim version of Linux/BSD on the drive and have all
the media on a FAT32 partition so that Tiger can still use the drive.  I
know that FreeBSD can be run extremely slim (~100MB I think).

On 6/9/06, Victoria L. Herring <vlherring at herringlaw.com> wrote:
>
> >"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?
>
> yes, I did that...
>
> >  The iApps and the stuff in your applications and utilities folders
> >- those are safe to trash.
>
> thanks - I probably will not touch Library or System for the reasons you
> state.
> >
> I did de select fonts and languages...what is odd about getting rid
> of them later is that every time I've run something to do that
> [usuallyMonolingual] it ends up 'breaking' my Microsoft keyboard so
> that I have to reinstall it....thus, I've not wanted to do any of
> that tinkering
>
> As to why, just trying to start out with max room and not have
> unnecessary stuff...I did want it bootable just in case but not have
> alot of stuff on it otherwise....
> Thanks for the help
>
>
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