Thanx. I had thought of using Yellow Dog, though I just checked real
quick on the possibilities, and didn't see my partition, but I'll check
again. I'll try the gtoaster hfs possibility, I didn't explore it very
well, just burned.
Thanx,
ES
On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 15:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Eric Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I have a PowerMac 7300/180 running Yellow Dog Linux 3.0 and a minimal
> > version of OS 8.1 that I pieced together from downloaded OS 8.1 Disk
> > tools images. I have Basilisk II on my Windows 2kPro/Mandrake Linux 9.1
> > AthlonXP @ 1.6GHz. I managed to get an OS 7.6.1 image copied from my
> > Basilisk files to a CD, though all of them are in bin format. (I burned
> > with gnome toaster on Mandrake Linus 9.1) The minimal OS that I got on
> > the 7300 doesn't support running Wintel CD's. My Mac SE has PC exchange
> > for floppies, and my dad's 7200/90 has OS 8.6 that will run the CD.
> >
> > Now, with that background, what extensions do I have to copy to
> > my 7300
> > to run the CD? I can from there expand the bin files and boot up off of
> > floppy and replace the current OS with the new 7.6.1.
>
> I konw you're asking for the 8.1 extensions to read this cd, but you
> can read it without them.
> Yellow Dog should be able to mount and read the cd, and if you have
> the 8.1 system on an hfs partition, it should be able to mount that
> partition- so you can copy the files from the cd to the Mac
> partition. If the Mac partition is hfs+, 7.6 can't read it anyway.
> Alternatively, you can burn hfs cds from Linux- probably from
> gtoaster, but I use mkisofs and cdrecord.
>
> --
> Dana
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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