macos 7.5.3 floppy images, not bin files
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From: gnorayr on 5 Feb 2006 17:11 Hello. Iv' got a powerbook laptop and had downloaded macos 7.5.3 bin files, but realize that they are useless without a real macos system. Where can I get 7.5.3 as an images to write it do floppies with dd or rawrite? I have no system installed on my laptop, so bin files are really useless. Thanks
From: gnorayr on 5 Feb 2006 17:19 may be somweher available for download iso image to burn 7.5.3 bootable disk? thanks
From: J.J. O'Shea on 5 Feb 2006 18:48 On Sun, 5 Feb 2006 17:11:20 -0500, gnorayr(a)gmail.com wrote (in article <1139177480.133013.168530(a)g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>): > Hello. > Iv' got a powerbook laptop and had downloaded macos 7.5.3 bin files, > but realize that they are useless without a real macos system. > Where can I get 7.5.3 as an images to write it do floppies with dd or > rawrite? > > I have no system installed on my laptop, so bin files are really > useless. > > Thanks > The files on Apple's site at <http://download.info.apple.com/Apple_Support_Area/Apple_Software_Updates/Engl ish-North_American/Macintosh/System/Older_System/System_7.5_Version_7.5.3/> _are_ floppy images. You're going to need a live system to set them up. -- email to oshea dot j dot j at gmail dot com.
From: Roger Johnstone on 5 Feb 2006 23:51 In <0001HW.C00BF901020811ACF0305550(a)news.newsguy.com> J.J. O'Shea wrote: > On Sun, 5 Feb 2006 17:11:20 -0500, gnorayr(a)gmail.com wrote > (in article <1139177480.133013.168530(a)g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>): > >> Hello. >> Iv' got a powerbook laptop and had downloaded macos 7.5.3 bin files, >> but realize that they are useless without a real macos system. >> Where can I get 7.5.3 as an images to write it do floppies with dd or >> rawrite? >> >> I have no system installed on my laptop, so bin files are really >> useless. >> >> Thanks >> > > The files on Apple's site at > <http://download.info.apple.com/Apple_Support_Area/Apple_Software_ > Updates/Engl ish-North_American/Macintosh/System/Older_System/System_7. > 5_Version_7.5.3/> _are_ floppy images. You're going to need a live > system to set them up. Believe it or not they're not floppy disk images but a CD image split into 19 parts. The first part is a self-mounting disk image i.e. it's an application which when run gathers the other 18 parts together and mounts a single disk of about 40MB. Each part is however limited in size so it will fit on a 1.4MB floppy disk. Presumably the idea is that you download the 19 parts, copy each part to a floppy disk, take the disks to the destination Mac, copy the parts off the disks to the hard drive, and run the self-mounting image. You then have mounted on your desktop a disk image of the System 7.5.3 CD installer. To the original poster: There's a bootable floppy at <http://download.info.apple.com/Apple_Support_Area/Apple_Software_ Updates/English-North_American/Macintosh/Utilities/Network_Access_Disk_7. 5.sea.bin> The bin suffix indicates it has a MacBinary header, and the sea that it's a self-extracting archive. Both of these can be taken care of StuffIt. There's the free StuffIt Expander for Mac and Windows, and a time-limited demo of the full version for Mac, Linux, Solaris and Windows. http://www.stuffit.com/ http://www.jagshouse.com/Macs_and_PCs.html has more info on creating a bootable Mac disk on a PC. -- Roger Johnstone, Invercargill, New Zealand http://roger.geek.nz/ ________________________________________________________________________ No Silicon Heaven? Preposterous! Where would all the calculators go? Kryten, from the Red Dwarf episode "The Last Day"
From: gnorayr on 6 Feb 2006 05:40
Sure... I know all you wrote, I have read it in the net... Excuse me I did not wrote about it... I have no system on mac installed, so I can't do how you sayd I want to create floppies from images... I have no installes system on mac... First thing com in my mind is to boot disk tools floppy I have and write cd with hfs using linux and copy 19 files on it... Anyway I am searching a way to create floppies on a pc from img files... Is it legal if anyone, who had 7.5.3 floppies give me image files, so I can write floppies with it? Thanks |