Re: Utility for making disks?

["Roger Johnstone" <rojaws@es.co.nz>]

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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.


Roger Johnstone
Invercargill
New Zealand
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