Re: Woody floppy install on OldWorld Mac
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
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