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Article #47190Re: What is minimum needed on startup floppy?
From: Peter Commons
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 1990 19:16
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 1990 19:16
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In article 6466, H. Poppe writes: > >Starting with System 6.0, Apple has been including special Installer >scripts for generating "minimal" systems. They are on Utility Disk 1. >The startup disk so created will only work on a single Mac type >(MacPlus, for instance). The new Installer (V2.0, comes with 6.0.4) >makes this operation particularly easy, since it makes the choices >obvious (when you select "Custom") and will get resources/files >from the appropriate disk. > Is there a way as easy as this to create a minimal system to work on every kind of Mac? i.e. What exactly is the minimal system file needed to work on every Mac? I assume it's the System found on the utilities disk minus any extra fonts or DAs, but I'd love to know! Peter Commons commons@sunburn.stanford.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!ogicse!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!decwrl!shelby!neon!Sunburn.Stanford.EDU!commons From: commons@Sunburn.Stanford.EDU (Peter Commons) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: What is minimum needed on startup floppy? Keywords: startup floppy Message-ID: <1990Mar1.191611.27202@Neon.Stanford.EDU> Date: 1 Mar 90 19:16:11 GMT References: <2759@aecom.yu.edu> <6466@ncar.ucar.edu> Sender: root@Neon.Stanford.EDU (System PRIVILEGED Account) Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University Lines: 21