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How do you boot from a CD or DVD in Mac OSX or OS X? How can I ignore the startup disk/volume?

Sep.27, 2008 in Apple, osx Leave a Comment

I recently had to upgrade my Mac Mini from OSX 10.4.x (Tiger) to OS X 10.5 (Leopard.)
In order to do so, I had to figure out how to make my Mac boot up from the CD/DVD drive, not from the hard disk.
Here are few different methods for booting from CD on a [...]

Free up Disk Space on your Mac by Removing unnecessary OSX language files

Sep.27, 2008 in Apple, osx Leave a Comment

Mac OSX.
It looks pretty.
It’s based on BSD.
But it’s a disk space HOG, with a full install consuming nearly 20GB of disk space.
Fortunately, there is an easy way that you can reclaim 1-2 GB of disk space on your Mac. By default, Apple’s OSX installs hundreds of language (localization) files [...]

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