[geeks] Ok I am ready to kill this Fu**ing linux box

Dave Kimmel crisco_kid at shaw.ca
Fri May 24 14:49:30 CDT 2002


On Fri, 24 May 2002, Peter L. Wargo wrote:

> Most Quadra 610's were full '040's, only the 8/160 config was an LC.
> Are you sure you have the LC?  (IF you do, I have a spare 040 25MHz
> kicking around...)

I'm fairly sure it is, but I'll have to open it when I get home to be 100%
sure.

> Yeah, but that's the way it's done to get around some of the mac
> firmware.  The good news is that you can make a really small MacOS
> partition and just have a bootable system on it as well as the utility.
> Put the utility in as a startup item, and booting is still automatic.

Hmm...  I might as well just leave the existing MacOS partition then and
use it to boot an external drive or something.  Or...  Is there anything
that can shrink a MacOS partition, sorta like FIPS.exe for DOS ones?

-- Dave Kimmel
   crisco_kid at shaw.ca



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