Re: Getting files into and out of KEGS...how?

[scott@alfter.DIESPAMMERSDIE.us (Scott Alfter)]

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In article <46E20FE8.9902.usenet_csa2@a2central.com>,
BluPhoenyx <bluphoenyx@a2central.com.remove-iyz-this> wrote:
>  To: scott
>scott wrote:
>> 
>> 0.9.40 is what I've been running lately.  0.9.42 and later has standard file
>> dialog bugs that popped up in another program.  Last time I tried running
>> CiderPress, I may have been running something between 0.9.30 and 0.9.39
>> (inclusive).
>
>I just went back to a 64 bit Linux on my laptop (amd64 / XUbuntu 7.04 
>Fiesty). A quick Google to find the amd64 package repository info. Wine 
>version 0.9.43-winehq-ubuntu-7.04-1 is running Ciderpress. I did a clean 
>install from the Setup.exe (ver. 3.0). Only issue I had was a missing 
>dll, mfc42.dll. Placed a copy into the Windows\system32 folder and so 
>far Ciderpress runs ok.

With a little more experimentation, I figured out my problem: the copy of
mfc42.dll I was using was somehow screwed up.  I think it came from one of
those missing-DLL-download sites; I should've just copied it from
%SYSTEMROOT% on one of my WinXP installs.  When I did that, CiderPress was
able to open a ShrinkIt archive and a disk image.

In the meantime, I've set up my "stealth GS" on a desk I picked up
inexpensively today.  It has the full range of storage options attached to
it (5.25" & 3.5" floppy drives, CD-ROM, tape, and a 4.3-GB hard drive), and
it's talking to my Linux box through a GatorBox.  It won't talk directly to
the Mac mini (Tiger implements neither EtherTalk nor the ancient version of
AFP that the IIGS understands, and lack of EtherTalk support keeps netatalk
from working), but it's enough that at least one machine on the LAN can talk
to the GS.

>Using HFS, you can use either a disk partition or a disk file if your 
>utilities support that. I had supplied Kent with the info for how to 
>setup HFS partitions in Linux. Although the file is rather old, 2000 I 
>think, it should still be mostly relevant. I haven't tried an HFS+ disk 
>image. If it's different from HFS in any way, it may not function 
>properly in KEGS / GSOS. I am curious to know if this works. I might 
>give it a go later.

GS/OS doesn't handle HFS+.  My first two efforts at burning CDs it could
read failed.  The first was an ISO-9660 CD-ROM burned by K3B on the Linux
box...that CD did nothing at all when it was inserted in the GS's drive (I
thought the last GS/OS was supposed to support ISO-9660).  The second was
what turned out to be an HFS+ CD-ROM burned by Disk Utility on the Mac
mini...that popped up an "incompatible filesystem" message box.

Disk Utility creates HFS+ image files by default, but it can be told to
create an HFS image instead.  Create it in the size you want, then select
the image (foo.dmg or whatever) and repartition it.  The default is one
journaled HFS+ partition ("Mac OS Extended (Journaled)"); change that to HFS
("Mac OS Standard"), uncheck "Install Mac OS 9 Disk Drivers," and click
Partition.  Once it's remounted, you can drag whatever you want into the
image, unmount it, and burn it to CD-R (or CD-RW, if your drive is new
enough to support it).  The resulting CD works fine.

(.dmg files created this way should also work in KEGS, but I've not checked
that yet.)

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