Re: HFS, P8 & Linux/Kegs

[CUTblakeney@home.com (Jeff Blakeney)]

On Mon, 02 Aug 1999 17:45:01 -0500, phoenyx <phoenyx@texas.net> wrote:

>Lot's of luck, sounds like an adventurous project. Unless you have access
>to a ZIP drive it looks like it may be an all night transfer.

Well, I did a couple transfers without any problems.  Just took me a
while.

I created 2MG files of some of my 32 MB ProDOS partitions and saved
them on my HFS partition.  This didn't take as long as I thought it
would which was nice.

I then used ShrinkIt to compress them which reduced them in size by
over half (the biggest one was 11 MB).  This step took a while as
ShrinkIt isn't the faster program around.

I then null-modemed them to my PC.  This was the slowest step as the
11 MB file took about 45 minutes to transfer.

Once I had it on my PC, I use Nulib from the MS-DOS prompt and they
unpacked just fine.  I copied the 2MG file to my XGS directory and it
booted just like my real IIgs does.

I then rebooted my PC into BeOS and copied the 2MG file into my
Sweet16 directory and it also booted fine.

I have since transferred another partition but still have a couple
more that I want to send to the PC for playing with the emulator.  I
really need to get a large removable drive of some kind to share
between the PC and the IIgs so that I can keep the real and emulated
hard drives synchronized.

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