Eddie On Everything » osx http://www.eddieoneverything.com Tips & tricks on things that interest me Wed, 11 Jan 2012 08:29:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 How do you boot from a CD or DVD in Mac OSX or OS X? How can I ignore the startup disk/volume? http://www.eddieoneverything.com/apple/how-do-you-boot-from-a-cd-or-dvd-in-mac-osx-or-os-x-how-can-i-ignore-the-startup-diskvolume.php http://www.eddieoneverything.com/apple/how-do-you-boot-from-a-cd-or-dvd-in-mac-osx-or-os-x-how-can-i-ignore-the-startup-diskvolume.php#comments Sat, 27 Sep 2008 17:59:04 +0000 eddie http://www.eddieoneverything.com/apple/how-do-you-boot-from-a-cd-or-dvd-in-mac-osx-or-os-x-how-can-i-ignore-the-startup-diskvolume.php
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 Mac:

  • Restart your computer and immediately press the c key. The computer will look for a bootable CD or DVD and, if it finds one, will use it as its startup device.
  • Restart your computer and immediately press Cmd-Option-Shift-Delete.
  • Restart your computer and immediately press the Option key. Icons for all available startup volumes will appear. Click the one you want to boot from.

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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 that you will probably never need. Honestly, how many people out there speak 200+ languages?

I am so happy that I found Monolingual, a handy little utility that will free up over 1GB of space on any version of OSX (Leopard, Tiger, etc.) by removing unnecessary language files.

Screenshot of Monolingual for Mac OSX

To free up disk space on your Mac, simply download the file from here and follow the on-screen instructions.

Note that it will take some time to run – it can take up to a couple of hours on some systems to the remove the many, many unneeded files. Still, the precious space that you will reclaim makes it well worth the wait.

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