On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 03:47:23AM -0200, Daniel Bolgheroni wrote: > > If they say you need to use something called 'Disk Copy', I presume that > > means you've got an image. If that is the case, please try the > > following: > > Oh! I was wrong. The images to be copied to floppy is for System 7.5.3. > However, even with the mistake of asking wrong, the problem remains the > same to me: How can I put the System 7.0.1 on floppy, using GNU/Linux? > > -- > Name: System 7.5 Version 7.5.3 > > (...) > > Instructions: > This software is available as 19 parts of a self-mounting Disk Copy > image. Download all 19 parts to your hard drive and then double-click > on the first part to mount the compressed disk image on your desktop. > -- > > The reason for System 7.0.1 instead of System 7.5.3 is because I have a > slower Macintosh LCII with only 4MB RAM; System 7.0.1 requires less memory > than System 7.5.3. > > This is curious. I have no idea how to manage this data: > > bash-2.05$ ls -al > -rw-r--r-- 1 dab__ users 4836709 Apr 14 1999 System 7.0.1.smi.data > -rw-r--r-- 1 dab__ users 128 Apr 14 1999 System 7.0.1.smi.info > -rw-r--r-- 1 dab__ users 310737 Apr 14 1999 System 7.0.1.smi.rsrc
Those are the 3 pieces: data fork, finder info, and resource fork. This can't fit on a floppy, though: it's a 'full' System 7.0.1 installer, rather than a 'floppy size' or 'Disk Tools' 7.0.1. The self-mounting image (smi) can only be handled by MacOS AFAIK. I don't think this can help you until you have a MacOS to bootstrap with. Tonight, I'll try copying a floppy System image into Linux and back out onto a floppy if that works, I'll let you know. The other suggestion might do the trick; if you can find the 7.0.1 (or even 6.7?) Disk Tools.img, then try to use dd to just write it directly to a floppy. If you get booted with a Disk Tools floppy, and those files are on an HFS partition on your Desktop, maybe they would open up by double clicking one of them; and that would allow you to install 7.0.1. (The Disk Tools by itself isn't an installable system). -- "The way the Romans made sure their bridges worked is what we should do with software engineers. They put the designer under the bridge, and then they marched over it." -- Lawrence Bernstein, Discover, Feb 2003
