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).<br><br>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/9/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Victoria L. Herring</b> <<a href="mailto:vlherring@herringlaw.com">vlherring@herringlaw.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">>"How stripped down can I make it??? Safely???"<br>><br>>That's the real question. When you did the install of OSX on the
<br>>drive, did you go into options and deselect bunches of stuff?<br><br>yes, I did that...<br><br>> The iApps and the stuff in your applications and utilities folders<br>>- those are safe to trash.<br><br>thanks - I probably will not touch Library or System for the reasons you state.
<br>><br>I did de select fonts and languages...what is odd about getting rid<br>of them later is that every time I've run something to do that<br>[usuallyMonolingual] it ends up 'breaking' my Microsoft keyboard so<br>that I have to reinstall it....thus, I've not wanted to do any of
<br>that tinkering<br><br>As to why, just trying to start out with max room and not have<br>unnecessary stuff...I did want it bootable just in case but not have<br>alot of stuff on it otherwise....<br>Thanks for the help<br>
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