On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Peter H. Froehlich wrote:

> On Thursday, February 7, 2002, at 04:35 , Cameron Kaiser wrote:
>
> > Yes, and yes. At present MacOS is needed to initialise the
> > hardware. There
> > is work in progress to allow self-booting on some systems, but
> > such things
> > would naturally be hardware-specfic.
>
> Alright, that leads to another question on my part: What is the
> latest MacOS version that I can run on a Quadra 840AV (or a Quadra
> 800, the other machine I have) and where do I get it? Do I have to
> buy an old OS from Apple? Both of my machines currently have some
> version of MacOS installed, but I would rather start with a "clean
> install" of MacOS that is as small as possible.

The latest Mac OS version that will run on an m68k Mac is 8.1, but
7.5.5, available as a free download from Apple, is more than adequate
to the task. The "mimimal install" of 7.5.5 is no more than about
20mb.

If you want even smaller, you could download the "Disk Tools" floppy,
replace Finder with the Booter, and populate a ~1mb partition with that.

Frederick