Re: Apple and linux question

[Nick <spam@ix.netcom.com>]

Drop 20 bucks and get another serial card.

The other thing would be to connect the Mac to Linux using ethernet and then ftp
the files over, or even better, use Linux as a router and browse the web
directly from the Mac.

Mike Pfaiffer wrote:

> This is kind of an interesting question... I want to bring some
> software from the net over to my GS. My sole connection to the net is
> through a cable-modem on a 486 running RedHat linux 5.1. I have no spare
> serial ports at the moment on the 486 so I can't connect the machines
> via a null modem cable. Here was what I was thinking...
>
>         Download software to the 486. Since there is supposed to be a way to
> mount Mac floppies I would save the files to a 1.44 floppy. From there I
> would bring it over to a Mac and copy the files to an 800k floppy which
> would be brought over to the GS with the HFS FST. Inefficient but a lot
> faster than dialup. ;-)
>
>         Here are the questions (some of which should be posted in other
> areas)... The only part I don't understand is how to mount a Mac disk on
> a linux machine. If I could mount an 800k floppy this may cut out the
> Mac from the process. Is anybody working on a ProDOS filetype for linux?
> Can someone come up with an easier process? Should I have checked the
> FAQs first? ;-)
>
>                                 Later
>                                 Mike
>
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