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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Installing Mavericks from thumb drive
Date: 5 Mar 2014 15:40:31 GMT
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On 2014-03-05, Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
> In message <lf6c4h$36i$1@dont-email.me> 
>   Király <me@home.spamsucks.ca> wrote:
>> nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:
>>> 2 gig free space *is* stuffing. os x does not like very little free
>>> space, although 2 gig likely won't matter with just an installer
>>> running.
>
>> Nonsense. No free space at all is needed on a volume with only an OS 
>> X installer on it.
>
> You are dealing with weaselboy. He will *never* admit he was wrong.
>
> He was wrong. There is absolutely no reason to use a USB stick over 8GB.
> Even if you wanted to put other programs on the installer, you have many
> GB of extra room.

I've done just that with my 8GB stick - SuperDuper, various disk
utilities, and other system diagnosis and setup type apps, and even
backup disk images for restoration to a new system.

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