Re: chicken or egg problem-newbie install question
Lincoln Rutledge wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
>
> Have Quadra 610, first Mac. Onboard Ethernet, fb video, SCSI CDROM,
> 250mb disk, 1gb disk. OS 7.1.
> How do I get network software installed in Mac OS to download Stuffit?
> Or get Stuffit onto a Mac disk to install?
> Have access to a WinXP machine on internet and LAN.
>
> Have Debian Potato CD for mac68k burned and ready to go. I have tried
> some different demo software for writing Mac floppies in XP with no
> luck. Also downloading the apps I need and burning them to CD doesn't
> work, I believe Windows kills the Mac file system metadata when saving
> to disk.
>
> Can I do this with a binary floppy image? Where would I find one?
>
> The problem is that I need to be able to extract the darn installation
> files.
What I did was use something called 'macette' on my PC (Win98). This
will format, read and write MacOS floppies in you PC's drive. More in
the faqs on:
www.sjoki.uta.fi/~shmhav/68000.txt and
www.sjoki.uta.fi/!shmhav/mac-internet-faq.txt
HTH, Erik
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