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Dan, The only absolute necessity is that the disk be "installed". Other than that…you don't absolutely have to have anything else on the disk. Then, depending on what you want to do, you add program files, configuration files, libraries and handlers. For example, on boot, the system looks for a file called sys:devs/system-configuration which contains your preferences settings. It then looks for sys:s/startup-sequence which is a script file containing things you want done when the system boots. Depending on what commands you ahve in that file…you need to have the programs in either the root directory of the disk, or in a directory called 'c' on the same disk. Again, if those programs load up libraries, they must be in a directory called libs on that same disk. If any handlers are needed, they are in the l directory. If any fonts are needed, they must be in the fonts directory and if any device files are needed, they'd be in the devs directory. So as you can see…there is no such thing as a minimum bootable disk…other than an installed disk. Beyond that, it all depends on what you want to do, and how you want to do it. Don