On Oct 28, 10:14 pm, tortoise <[email protected]> wrote: > On Oct 27, 6:59 am, Adam <[email protected]> wrote: > > > The problem is that the images on the CD aren't recognized by any > > unpacking or disk copying utility I have on the older machines. > > You can't > *mount the image on the *imac** > and share the mounted image to the others ? >
After I burned the CD, everything shows up ok on the CD on the iMac, but when I try to open the packed files/images, no utility I have recognizes them anymore. If I download them straight from the website *from the iMac* they work fine, and I can also unpack them on my Mac Pro, just not after I've put them on CD on the Pro and taken it over to the iMac > 8.6 should be able to recognize HFS+ just fine but I seem to recall > that there were funny changes in the hybrid formats. Can you burn CD > as plain HFS+ ? I'll try that. I burned the CD straight from the Finder on the Pro the first time. > > One further option is to install Panther or Jaguar on the imac. I've thought about that. I'm looking into seeing how the old iMac will handle that 40GB HDD I have on the shelf. If I can, I may just create a bunch of partitions and install 8, 9 and 10.3, since I have media for all those. I'm just really not looking forward to ripping open the case, as these early iMacs are kind of a pain in the butt to work on. When that happens, I want to upgrade the RAM at the same time, and I don't have any extra right now. > > >My > > guess is this is something to do with the way the CD is burned. I'm > > guessing SL burns in ISO9660 or whatever the standard CD format is, > > What is SL ? Sorry, Snow Leopard. > > > and that the older systems are expecting files encoded in HFS? I would > > like to try FTP but can't for the life of me figure out where to set > > it up in SL. It's not where I expected it to be and my Google searches > > have proved fruitless (no pun intended). > > It could also be CD sharing. I'd copy the images to the hd at least. I got FTP working from the Pro and set up a special shared folder for all my legacy stuff just for that. It's not quite as elegant as just straight file sharing, especially as Fetch seems to show all the hidden files and whatnot, and crashes about half the time. I wonder if there's anyone smarter than me who is working on programming the proper Snow Leopard drivers to reinstate AFP protocols below 3.0. That'd sure be nice. I wonder how deeply those are buried in the system... I did install Rosetta when I installed 10.6, so I wonder if I could force them to run under emulation if I dug them out of a Tiger system. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
