3 Jan
1999
3 Jan
'99
6:41 a.m.
Can anyone provide information on a Fujitsu external
floppy disk drive
for the Mac? It is model number FW5020M05. I am trying to rebuild a
SE/30 (10 years old yesterday :)
On the same note, anyone know a secret way to take the Mac OS 7.0.1
images that Apple has available on their site for free, download them to
a PC and make system disks from them? I have tons of working PC's, but
not networkable Macs to use to do this. Or, if anyone can dup me a copy
of System 6.0.4 or 7.0.1 I would appreciate it. Apparently this is
legal, since Apple has the images on their site, but if it is not,
forget I asked :)
OK, this is going to sound more than just a little wierd, and it isn't
exactly easy, but.... In any case I'm makeing one assumption, that at
least one of those Mac's has a 1.44Mb drive and is a 68k machine (never
verified 68k machine necessary).
Next I'll assume that one of those PC's you mention is either one of the
following; DOS, Windows 3, Windows 95, Windows NT, OS/2, or preferably
Linux. If so, go to http://www.ardi.com/ and download a demo copy of
Executor. Using executor it should be possible to create a archive of all
the disk images, split it up into chunks that will fit on floppies, and
then copy it over. I did this regularly several years ago with P90 laptop
running Linux and a PB520c, because the P90 had the modem.
Then again an easier method would be to create a split archive on the PC
that the Mac can then read, but I'm not sure how you do that. It might be
as easy as using PKzip and zipsplit if such things are still available,
then copying the pieces over, and dropping them on Stuffit Expander.
Zane
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