> I have a UMAX S900 without MacOS.  I'm trying to follow the System
> Disk Tutorial.  It recommends that I download the Disk_Tools_PPC.img
> file for the folks that do not have MacOS. I've done so and have a
> file called Disk_Tools_PPC.img.bin. I've confirmed that blindly dd'ing
> that onto a floppy is not going to work.  So I mumbled around and
> using pkg/macutil on NetBSD/i386 was able to extract the data portion.
> That, when dd'ed onto a floppy, at least gave me a happy floppy face,
> but immediately ejects that floppy and appears to want another. I tried
> applying the above to SystemDisk2.3.1.smi.bin but that just gets punted
> immediately from the floppy drive.
>
> Can someone explain how I complete these first steps using a nonMac (sw/hw)
> NetBSD system to derive what I need to continue following the Tutorial
> so I can run the System Disk utility?
>
> Thank you!
>
> -- Ken Wellsch
>

  I'm guessing the .bin is BinHexed.  You'll have to find an UnBinHex
utility to extract Disk_Tools_PPC.img from Disk_Tools_PPC.img.bin .

  maybe?

jdb