Re: Utility for making disks?

["tedmg" <tedmg@sonic.net>]

"Roger Johnstone" <rojaws@es.co.nz> wrote in message
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> In article <19991231153213.10067.00000147@ng-bk1.aol.com>,
> supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote:
>
>
> >Frank Carney <frankc@cyberhighway.net> wrote:
> >
> >>Supertimer wrote:
> >>
> >>> Frank Carney <frankc@cyberhighway.net> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> >Is there a utility for making disks for the Mac Plus/SE as there is
for
> >>> >the Apple II?
> >>>
> >>> The Finder?  On the Mac, as on the IIGS, you insert a blank
> >>> disk and the Finder will ask you if you wish to format it.  If
> >>> the disk is already formatted and you want to reformat it,
> >>> simply select the format option from pull down menu.
> >>
> >>Let me clarify, I do not even have a boot disk.  Can I use the IIgs to
make
> >>disks?
> >
> >Yes you can, but you need to have the Clone utility program
> >for the IIGS.  Clone is basically a clone of DiskCopy for the
> >IIGS.  You'd then need to download the Mac system
> >software (I think Apple provides old MacOS versions in
> >DiskCopy form on their web site) to the IIGS.  For example,
> >if you have a shell account on the IIGS, you can download
> >the DiskCopy MacOS disks from Apple to your shell account
> >and zmodem them to your IIGS.  Once on the IIGS, you can
> >use Clone to extract them to HFS disks.  This will only
> >work if the DiskCopy disks are 800k in size since the IIGS
> >normal drives support only 800k disks.  I think old MacOS
> >like System 6 are on 800k disks.  Newer ones are on
> >1.44MB ones and can't be extracted on the IIGS unless
> >you have a SuperDrive, BlueDisk, or Floptical system.
> >
> >Happy New Year.
>
> The Mac System 6 disks are at
>
http://download.info.apple.com/Apple_Support_Area/Apple_Software_Updates/Eng
> lish-North_American/Macintosh/System/Older_System/System_6.0.x/
>
> There is a catch though: these are self-extracting archives, you need to
run
> them on a Mac to extract the DiskCopy images first! Hopefully they are
> available elsewhere in non-self-extracting form.
>
If you still need the raw images you might try asking for them in one of the
alt.binaries.mac.? groups
As far as I know the older systems are free to use.