Re: Need help on dumping System 7.5.3 disk images to Mac LC from PC.

["Frank Townsend" <ftownsen@iamdigex.net>]

As I recall, I used Transmac  http://www.asy.com/sharetm.htm to copy
MacBinary files onto Mac formatted disks from my PC.  The first file appear
on the Mac formatted disk as an SMI file (Self Mounting Image) and the rest
as PART files (Disk Copy images) so you need Disk Copy.

Read

http://asu.info.apple.com/swupdates.nsf/artnum/n1004

Then, all 19 disks are copied to a folder on the Mac, forming a
self-extracting archive.

Double-click on the SMI file, then run the install, and away you go!!


Frank Townsend
......looking at a rainy day in Baltimore



A. Luna wrote in message <20000715125514.15373.00000339@ng-fy1.aol.com>...
>Hello, all!
>
>I need to know if there's a way to create Macintosh-readable floppies from
a
>PC.  I'm familiar with the Apple II line and DOS and Windows-based PCs, but
not
>Macs.
>
>I've recently acquired a Macintosh LC which I plan on using as an
AppleShare
>2.x or 3.x server for my Apple IIgs or Apple IIe.  System 6.0.1 is
installed on
>the Mac, and I'd like to wipe it out and install System 7.5.3.  I've
downloaded
>the 19-disk image set of System 7.5.3 from Apple's web site onto my PC and
now
>I just need to expand these disk images onto floppies so I can get started.
>
>I've downloaded both Aladdin System's "Aladdin Expander 5.0" for Windows
and
>DataViz' "Mac Opener" for Windows, played with the programs for about an
hour,
>and haven't had any success in creating the 19-disk set.  I was able to
extract
>the files just fine, but I'm just having problems dumping the disk images
to
>Mac readable disks.
>
>BTW, the Mac LC is very basic as far as software goes.  No third-party
archive
>utilities are installed on the Mac, such as Stuffit or Disk Copy 4.2, nor
any
>terminal programs.  Granted, there are other methods such as finding
another
>Mac to perform the extraction or setting up LocalTalk between my IIgs and
the
>LC.  But I would still like to perform the disk image extraction from my PC
for
>my learning experience.
>
>Thanks for any help!
>
>Art...