Kris Tilford wrote: > On Apr 17, 2009, at 3:22 PM, Bill Connelly wrote: > >> Is 3GB big enough for anything OS X 10.5? >> > > For a totally striped down system it's probably OK. I once had Tiger > on a 2GB external Firewire HD just for repairing other Macs. It was a > very tight fit, I think I used about 1.5GB and had 500MB freespace. As > I remember, the installer wouldn't allow it, saying the drive was too > small, but cloning worked fine. But you may be right, Leopard is > larger than Tiger, so perhaps 3GB is too small? > Tiger and the upgrade to 10.4.11 fit nicely on the 3.0 GB HD. >> To Disk Utilities > Repair a partition with OS X on it, I think you >> have to be somewheres else ... >> Correct ... hence the reason for the separate HD >> Like booted into the Install DVD or other bootable OS X partition ... >> I do not like using my Install DVD just to run Disk Utilities. > Yes. I think he just wants a special repair partition on the computer so he > doesn't need to find the CD/DVD for repairs? > Exactamondo! But instead of a partition I am getting the final use of an old, small, and otherwise wasted HDD that in this configuration should probably last indefinitely and will cause no harm when it ultimately fails.
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