Re: new installation on 4400/200

[Andrew Sharp <andy@netfall.com>]

I uploaded some more stuff to that location.  Like this (shhhh):

http://www.netfall.com/powerpc/stuffit_expander_55.bin

Even a Linux unstuffit x86 .deb which is very funky.  Read the
readme.  One of the funkiest parts is that every time I run dselect,
it ejects this package from my system.  Oh well, so much for the
"hold" status.

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Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> 
> Andrew Sharp wrote:
> 
> > Well, not really.  I have a machine with only 7.5.2 on it, and was
> > able to get stuffit and bootx on there.  You just have to use the
> > right version of stuffit.  They have many on their ftp site.
> 
> Really?  What's the right version?  I could only find the most recent, which didn't
> install, and older versions didn't unpack it.  Version sandwich...
> 
> > The
> > fight is not won, however, until you can get it onto the mockos
> > partition, unless you're downloading it from macos.  But I was
> > downloading it using Linux and there's a rub.  So I used netatalk to
> > handle it.  It has a handy `unbin' program which will unpack .bin
> > files.  But now that I have more experience, I would install the
> > netatalk package, unbin the stuffit.bin file, and then use hfscopy
> > to copy the result to the hfs partition, and see if that would
> > work.
> 
> Yup, that's what I did, from the tarball (thanks for repeating the link), without
> netatalk.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Adam P.
> 
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