On 2 Dec, this message from Kevin van Haaren echoed through cyberspace: >>>Hi, everyone. I'm trying to install Woody onto a Performa 6400/180 >>>that runs MacOS 8.1 on an HFS-formatted disk. I'm using the disk >>>images from >>>ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-powerpc/current/powermac/images-1.44/, >>> >>>with the exception of boot-floppy-hfs.img, which is corrupt, >>>according to Disk Copy and ShrinkWrap (yes, I tried downloading it >>>more than once, and didn't automatically post-process it :) >> >>I just downloaded and it works fine for me. The mirror you were >>downloading from may have had a corrupt version. >> >>Try downloading from ftp.debian.org or I've had good luck using >>canada's mirrors at ftp.ca.debian.org > > I take this back. The hfs image file doesn't work with Disk Copy > under OS 9. It does work with Disk Copy under OS X. I have no idea > why.
Shot in the dark: don't MacOS disk images have a few bytes of some kind of header appended in front of them? Michel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michel Lanners | " Read Philosophy. Study Art. 23, Rue Paul Henkes | Ask Questions. Make Mistakes. L-1710 Luxembourg | email [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cpu.lu/~mlan | Learn Always. "
