Subject: Re: Tutorial for stripping down MacOS
To: Simone Caronni <slaanesh@fastwebnet.it>
From: Henry B. Hotz <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 07/10/2002 18:26:47
At 6:42 PM +0200 7/9/02, Simone Caronni wrote:
>Hello, does someone know how to strip MacOS down removing finder
>etc. and just leaving the booter? I'm not able to get a set of new
>MacOS disks here, and trying to mess with the system might not be a
>good idea, if I make a mistake I could not do much to recover.
There should be something on the list about how to do this.
Basically you make a boot floppy, delete the finder and change the
file type/creator code of the booter to what the finder was and put
it in the system folder. Maybe you need to change its name to Finder
also, I forget.
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