In last month's column, I described the hurdles that Mac OS X puts in your way when you try to create a bootable disc, especially a custom bootable CD, DVD or flash drive. I offered various solutions ...

Bootable hard drives. Creating a bootable hard drive in Mac OS X is not difficult, but is still a significant undertaking. The most common method is to boot from a Mac OS X Install disc, run the ...

you can get rid of some things from the retail disc (fonts, localizations, print drivers, etc) which take up a good amount of space, but thing will probably get dicey if do much more than that (not ...