Re: Re: mac boot disk in PC

["krishnakumar natarajan" <kkleokrish@rediffmail.com>]

Hi Chris,

Thanks for your immediate response. As such I am a PC guy and am 
new to Mac. I have been using linux in pc and now that i have an 
old mac at home i want to start using it with linux. But before 
doing that i just want to get used to mac OS which may also 
through some light on understanding the hardware. Anyway i also 
see that mac needs to do the hardware initialization. So before i 
start using mac linux i just want my system to be up and may be on 
the net using mac so that i can download all the linux stuff in 
it.

And One more thing that i notice is that nothing is displayed on 
the screen and i am getting only a musical tone and the system 
stops with a blank screen. My friend says that the musical tone 
comes only if the system cannot boot.

So I just want to know, whether i can use disk tools disk, that i 
prepared from the disk tools image i downloaded to boot my crashed 
Mac OS and repair the OS in Hard disk or should i use the Network 
boot disk image from floppy to boot the system. I just want sure 
that my way of trying to get the system up is right and the 
problem is only because of a faulty Floppy Disk.

Regards,
krishna


On Mon, 17 Feb 2003 Chris Tillman wrote :
> On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 03:51:40AM -0000, krishnakumar natarajan 
> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I'm having a problem with creating Mac 7.0.1 boot disk from 
> a
> > PC.
> > My Mac with system 7.0.1 is not booting up and want to boot it 
> up
> > and run disk tools. I got the disk tools image and used Gem
> > explorer to copy the disk tools image to a mac formatted 
> floppy
> > (Formatted using Gemulator in PC) in my PC. But when I tried 
> to
> > boot the mac using that disk, it is not booting up. And it is 
> not
> > ejecting the disk also. So I think the the floppy is 
> recognised as
> > a Mac floppy but is not recognised as boot floppy.
>
> If it is read but no valid system folder is found, the disk would 
> be
> ejected.  You would then see a flashing floppy disk icon with a
> superimposed question mark (if your hard drive installation is 
> also
> failing).
>
> If the floppy drive hasn't been used in a while, there's a good
> possibility the inside is caked with lint and dust. Get some 
> canned
> air and try to clean it out.
>
> BTW, do you have Debian installed? You could mount the Mac 
> partition
> from there to check it out.
>
> --
> "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