Re: Apple and linux question

[wbdesnoy@acs2.acs.ucalgary.ca (Byron Desnoyers Winmill)]

Mike Pfaiffer (pfaiffer@mbnet.mb.ca) 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...

: 	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? ;-)

It is unfortunate, but Linux for your 486 will never be able to access
800kb ProDOS floppies as the format of the diskettes are all wrong on the
hardware level (and no file system can tell your IBM floppy controller to
access 800kb diskettes).

One suggestion though would be to connect your Linux machine to the IIGS
via the serial port.  After getting a z-modem file transfer program on the
IIGS, and "sz" onto your Linux box, you can cut the Mac out altogether.
Not to mention that the IIGS would also be useful as an extra terminal for
RedHat (you do your e-mail while somebody else is using the web).

Good-Luck,
Byron Q. Desnoyers Winmill. 




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