I normally don't like to blow my own horn but the doctortom refers to my PhD in Computer Technology. In the late 80's, I only used Macs but none since. I recently got a Power Mac 5200/75 in an auction and am planning to use it quite frequently. The problem I have been having is that it has OS 7.5.1 and I have been trying to upgrade to 7.5.3 that I downloaded onto my PPC. I put it on disks and the Mac wants to open it with Script Editor and then it goes awhile and then gives me an error that it can't read the dictionary and that there is an Apple error. I then downloaded all 19 disks and several other system disks onto a blank CD using my CD Burner. I used WinImage and combined them all so that there is individual copies and one self-extracting file. I put the CD into the Mac and nothing happens. It doesn't even acknowledge that there is a CD in the CD Drive. I know that the CD Drive works and the floppies that I put in do pop up on the desktop.
I am sure that I am doing something simple wrong. If anyone can help, I would really appreciate it. Thank you. doctortom
Lucky for me I have two to blow my horn. ;)
I'm guessing your using a pc rather than a ppc? If it was infact a ppc then you have likely downloaded the files as text rather than binary?
If its a pc then leave the 19 .bin files as .bin files and then transfer them to the mac and drop them on to stuffit or mac binary, you'll end up with one .smi or diskcopy file and 18 part files. Double click the .smi file and if diskcopy is installed the image should mount on the desktop. You could burn the 19 .bin files to cd and transfer them that way or use basilisk to download and transfer them via appletalk (ethernet only) to the off topic powermac
Yet another option is the 7.5.3 cd image, gone but not forgotten at: http://web.archive.org/web/20020620094428/http://www.graphixmad.plus.com/mac_troubleshooter/downloads/System7.5.3-CD.img.bin You may struggle to burn this on a pc however.
When burning cd's for old macs a burn speed of 2x or 4x can save on coasters, damn boring though.
As you can see, I dont quite understand the question. ;)
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