Subject: Re: transmac
To: None <wonko@entropy.tmok.com>
From: Svante =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=F6rmark?= <svinto@ita.chalmers.se>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 11/16/1999 12:55:57
hi,

at ftp://ftp.mac.linux-m68k.org/pub/MacLinux/mac-utils/mac_7.5_nb_disk.img
is a bootable dd image of the "network access boot-disk". 
assuming you can get the installation files by appletalk or something like that,
it should be all you need. otherwise you need some other stuff as well. 


Scarlet Macaw wrote:
> 
> "Wonko the Sane (Brian Hechinger)" wrote:
> >
> > ok, got transmac now what?  i was sorta expecting transmac to be a dd kinda
> > thing where it would write the disk image to the raw drive.  but that's not
> > how all this works is it?  what do i need to do?  just copy the Network Boot
> > disk thing to a floppy?  do i need to open it up and get all the files out
> > first?  HELP!!
> >
> > -wonko
> Hello Brian/List
> 
> Actually, transmac can't make a bootable mac disk, it's only really
> usefull to you in copying files to a currently booting Macintosh. To
> Make a Macintosh "Boot Disk" is to either use a Mac, or a Mac Emulator.
> Unless you like hacking ;)
> 
> Another possibility other then Executor, would be Fusion by Microcode
> Solutions
> (http://www.microcode-solutions.com/pc/fusion/whatsnew/frame.htm)... But
> then again you would need to install MacOS onto it to make it usefull
> and you would need that bootdisk or MacOS CD :}
> 
> Chris Mckay
> parrothd@radiks.net

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