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On Thursday 22 May 2003 13:28, Andrew Gaffney wrote: |
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> I'm not really much of a Mac person (or atleast the OS). I'm trying to |
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> install Gentoo on my PowerMac 7500 that I just got last night. I have |
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> MacOS 7.5.2. It doesn't come with Netscape or BinHex or anything else |
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> useful. I have no way to get BootX, or Netscape, or StuffIt, or |
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> anything like that. I tried downloading the files I needed on my x86 |
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> Gentoo box and burning them to a CD. My Mac just saw the files as text |
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> files. What can I do? |
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Ok, I went through a similar mess when I got a Power Mac 8600 recently. |
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I kept some notes on what I did, so you should be able to get up and |
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running in the same way. |
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First I went to Aladdin's web site, to download Stuffit Expander for |
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System 7.5. Then, the question is how to get that file over to the Mac |
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in a form it can use. |
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On your working Gentoo box: emerge hfstools |
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This gives you utilities to mount and deal with Apple filesystems. Using |
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them is not as transparent as the "mtools" for dealing with DOS systems, |
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but it works. You might also be able to just use "mount -t hfs" *if* you |
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built HFS(+) support into your kernel or as a module. |
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Now you can do "hmount untitled" to mount a Mac-formatted floppy |
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("hformat /dev/fd0" to make one); "hcopy -b aladdin_whatever untitled:" |
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(note the colon there, and read the hcopy manual to know why it's |
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needed!) to get the HQX file onto the disk and un-BinHexed. |
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Go to Mac, install Stuffit Expander, rebuild desktops per Stuffit |
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instructions. |
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At this point, if you've burned the Gentoo-ppc install CD using the ISO |
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from the install docs, the Mac should recognize the things on it and you |
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should be able to open the stuffed files to get started. |
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Good luck, |
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