18 Jun
1998
18 Jun
'98
8:18 p.m.
Hi there...
ftp://ftp5.info.apple.com/Apple.Support.Area/Apple_SW_Updates/US/Macintosh/S
yste
Actually you can get copies of 6.0.x and 7.0.x from
one of their FTP
sites
m/Older_System/
Of course you need a functional Mac to make the floppies. If you have
both
hard drives, simply make sure the SCSI ID's are
set to different numbers,
and either leave both in the machine, or copy the 40Mb drive to the
larger
one. Another more expensive alternative would be to
get a external
CD-ROM
and a copy of MacOS on CD.
Umm.... If there has any method to build up the Mac Discs on a PC??
Yours,
Ken Yaksa
19 Jun
19 Jun
2:57 a.m.
On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, Ken Yaksa wrote:
Umm.... If there has any method to build up the Mac
Discs on a PC??
The low level format of Macintosh and IBM PC-clone 1.44 MB floppy disks is
the same; therefore, it is possible, but probably not trivial to do with
the images that Apple has on their FTP site. I once downloaded the
Macintosh system software variants that Apple makes available, then used a
Mac to make disks from the image files, then made images of the resulting
disks using dd (on a Linux box). The resulting images can be copied back
to floppy disks using dd (or rawrite under MS-DOS). Kind of a handy way
to avoid needing a working Mac to make the disks to get a Mac working.
Unfortunately, I don't think Apple allows redistribution of their OS by
third parties, so I've kept these images to myself.
Does anyone know the format of Macintosh Disk Copy 4.x images? If this
program is doing the obvious thing and simply storing a raw dump of the
disk's contents in the data fork, then it should be possible to make
Macintosh disks from these images using rawrite or dd, provided that a
means exists on your platform of choice for extracting the image file from
the compressed archive provided by Apple.
Note that 400k/800k Macintosh disks cannot be written to or read by IBM
PC-clone hardware, so you're out of luck if your Mac isn't equipped with a
DS/HD (or FDHD, in Applespeak) drive.
--
Scott Ware ware(a)xtal.pharm.nwu.edu
12:35 p.m.
On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, Ken Yaksa wrote:
There are several programs for transferring disks from a PC to Mac .
Macindos , Macsee , and IMHO the best is Macdisk .
This is a description:
macdisk.exe (249K)
Mac Disk is a PC utility to read, write, and
format Macintosh HD floppy disks. Bundled
with an Ascii converter and a utility to edit the
internal table. Contains a demo version under
Windows and a shareware version. From Pierre
Duhem. See ReadMe for additional information.
macsq.exe (318K)
Mac SQ is a PC utility to read, write and
format Macintosh SyQuest cartridges on a PC.
Contains a demo version under Windows and a
shareware version under DOS.
The macsq overcomes the problem of the non-MFM
800 and 400 k flopies if you have access to a Syquest
removeable.
I can't find the URL for this but a search should easily turn it up.
Of course if you have a working Mac you can down load to a PC
The trick is not to uncompress on the PC but simply transfer the
uncompressed files and then uncompress them with Shrinkit .
The same technique works with the Atari ST
ciao larry
lwalker(a)interlog.com
Umm.... If there has any method to build up the
Mac Discs on a PC??
The low level format of Macintosh and IBM PC-clone 1.44 MB floppy disks is
the same; therefore, it is possible, but probably not trivial to do with
the images that Apple has on their FTP site. I once downloaded the
Macintosh system software variants that Apple makes available, then used a
Mac to make disks from the image files, then made images of the resulting
disks using dd (on a Linux box). The resulting images can be copied back
to floppy disks using dd (or rawrite under MS-DOS). Kind of a handy way
to avoid needing a working Mac to make the disks to get a Mac working.
Unfortunately, I don't think Apple allows redistribution of their OS by
third parties, so I've kept these images to myself.
Does anyone know the format of Macintosh Disk Copy 4.x images? If this
program is doing the obvious thing and simply storing a raw dump of the
disk's contents in the data fork, then it should be possible to make
Macintosh disks from these images using rawrite or dd, provided that a
means exists on your platform of choice for extracting the image file from
the compressed archive provided by Apple.
Note that 400k/800k Macintosh disks cannot be written to or read by IBM
PC-clone hardware, so you're out of luck if your Mac isn't equipped with a
DS/HD (or FDHD, in Applespeak) drive.
--
Scott Ware ware(a)xtal.pharm.nwu.edu
5:52 a.m.
On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, Ken Yaksa wrote:
Umm.... If there has any method to build up the Mac
Discs on a PC??
There is a shareware Windows application out there called WinImage
(winimg*.zip) that I have used to write out 1.4 MB Macintosh disk images.
As my SE/30 has a problem that renders its disk drive read-only, this has
saved me on a number of occasions.
I can't remember offhand where I found it, but a web search should be
sufficient to locate it again.
ok
r.
7:55 a.m.
On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, Ken Yaksa wrote:
Hi there...
ftp://ftp5.info.apple.com/Apple.Support.Area/Apple_SW_Updates/US/Macintosh/S
yste
Yes, there is a free(?)/share(?)ware program named MAC-ETTE that will
format, read, and write the 1.44mb Mac disks. The problem that most of
us non-Mac yokels have is trying to figure out what goes in which fork!
You should be abble to find it with a Web search.
- don
Actually you can get copies of 6.0.x and 7.0.x
from one of their FTP
sites
m/Older_System/
Of course you need a functional Mac to make the floppies. If you have
both
hard drives, simply make sure the SCSI ID's
are set to different numbers,
and either leave both in the machine, or copy the 40Mb drive to the
larger
one. Another more expensive alternative would be
to get a external
CD-ROM
and a copy of MacOS on CD.
Umm.... If there has any method to build up the Mac Discs on a PC?? Yours,
Ken Yaksa
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