Re: Apple and linux question

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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...
>
>	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? ;-)

Drop $20 and find a used Apple High Speed SCSI card for the IIGS and
then steal your Mac's SCSI Zip drive and plug it into the IIGS.  Once
that's accomplished, you can read and write both HFS and MS-DOS FAT
(with MUG!) formatted Zip disks with the IIGS.

Transfer your files this way and save a lot of headache.  If possible, I
recommend HFS because it is the most transparent, but I make do with
MS-DOS FAT Zip disks for transfer because I have Win 95 without the
needed extension to read and write HFS Zip disks.

Did I mention using Zip disks is like >1000x faster than a serial transfer?