Re: HOWTO ? -> make CDROMs accessible by a IIe

[Wayne Stewart <waynes@intergate.bc.ca>]

Courtney Thomas wrote:

> Greetings !
>
> I have a ROM-Burner on another system and want to make CDROMs that can
> be accessed by a IIe.
>
> I guess either a SCSI card w/CDROM must be on the IIe, or the CDROM must
> be on another machine accessible thru localtalk running on the IIe.

Either way works but differently from each other. If you're making the CD
for a
IIe you'd likely want a ProDOS formatted single burn CD. By that I mean all
the
partitions are done in a single burn. I've done this by putting everything
on a
partitioned ProDOS hard drive. Then I attach it to a Mac but I don't power
it up at
the time I startup as I don't want the Mac to access it. After the Macs up
and running
I turn on the drive, boot Toast and make a blind SCSI copy of that device.
Of course
this requires a SCSI card which can be hard to find.

If you have a Workstation card you can access CDs on a localtalk network.
The CDs don't have to be ProDOS but do have to have ProDOS compatible
names.


>
> How can the CDs be burned on MSWindows or Unix, or must they be created
> on a Mac ?

If the PCs have SCSI it shouldn't be a problem. Maybe someone can offer
another
way of doing it. That's just the metod I use

Wayne