Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!yale!mintaka!chaos.cs.brandeis.edu!aland
From: aland@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Alan D Danziger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: What is minimum needed on startup floppy?
Keywords: startup floppy
Message-ID: <1990Mar1.041234.9056@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu>
Date: 1 Mar 90 04:12:34 GMT
References: <2759@aecom.yu.edu> <25EC990F.12073@paris.ics.uci.edu>
Organization: Brandeis University Computer Science Dept
Lines: 23

In article <25EC990F.12073@paris.ics.uci.edu> ajauch@ics.uci.edu (Alexander Edwin Jauch) writes:
>In article <2759@aecom.yu.edu> bob@aecom.yu.edu (Bob Lummis) writes:
>>What are the minimum files needed on a floppy to use it as a startup disk?  By
>
>The only thing you need on a startup disk are the files called system and
>finder.  You can safely delete all the fonts loaded into the system (the
>required ones will not go away).  You can also trash all your da's, nothing
>is required.  I would suggest keeping the chooser, however.
>
>Alex Jauch
>ajauch@bonnie.ics.uci.edu

WRONG!!!  At LEAST as of System 6, you MUST have at least one DA in
the Apple menu (most people use Alarm Clock because it seems to be the
smallest) and if you delete all your fonts, your text will look funny.
This USUALLY won't be a big deal, however.  But the important thing is
that I don't believe Font/DA Mover will let you REALLY mess things up.


-- 

	-=Alan=-
	aland@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu