As an example you can make a 10mb partition and copy the system folder from a macos disk-tools floppy. To this you add the bootx extension and app, also the required linux kernels, these being the main reason for needing 10 or more mb's.
Since BootX can't use compressed kernels, if you want to try different kernels, you might want more than 10 MB. You will also need some kind of system to update the kernel on the HFS partition, because the Linux install doesn't know it is there. Since the kernels can't be compressed, they usually can't fit on a floppy.
My system is to ftp the kernel to a remote machine I can access via AFP once I boot to the Mac OS partition. This means the System Folder has to support network access, which increases the size.
I suppose you could have a DOS partition that could be read by both OS's, but i have never tried that.
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