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Lawrence D'Oliveiro
*nix forums Guru
Joined: 25 Mar 2005
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 Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 6:38 am Post subject:
Re: create Mac boot disk in Linux
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In article <1145576837.179288.11030@t31g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
"gypsy3001@yahoo.com" <gypsy3001@yahoo.com> wrote:
| Quote: | P.S. I tried to download some sea.bin files on Apple's old software
download page, such as Disk Copy or image mounter. I used Linux to
download. Wrote them to a HFS floppy disk. Copied them onto the
PowerBook. But they won't run.
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..bin is probably MacBinary format. |
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Roger Johnstone
*nix forums beginner
Joined: 18 Apr 2006
Posts: 4
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| Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 10:58 am Post subject:
Re: create Mac boot disk in Linux
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In <1145576837.179288.11030@t31g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> gypsy3001@
yahoo.com wrote:
| Quote: | To make it easy for you I've used Apple's Disk Utility to convert the
Disk Tools image from an old-style NDIF disk image to the sort
favoured by Mac OS X: uncompressed and with no header  ) A simple
dd if="Disk Tools PPC.dmg" of=/dev/fd0 should work fine. You can
download it from here http://roger.geek.nz/DiskToolsPPC.dmg.zip
Hi Roger!
Thanks a lot! That really helps. The PowerBook 1400cs boots now off
the floppy.  I tested it with a old 4 GB hard drive and it works.
So my friend is going to bring the original HD with his precious data
on it to see if we can recover it. Thank you.
P.S. I tried to download some sea.bin files on Apple's old software
download page, such as Disk Copy or image mounter. I used Linux to
download. Wrote them to a HFS floppy disk. Copied them onto the
PowerBook. But they won't run. Do you have any idea why or how to get
them to run?
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They're self-extracting archives (.sea) in a MacBinary wrapper (.bin).
Traditionally Mac applications have a resource fork and a data fork,
plus file metadata stored in the filesystem, all of which is very, very
important. The metadata and resource fork get stripped the file passes
through a non-Mac aware system so the MacBinary wrapper puts everything
into one flat file to protect it.
Now you need a program on the Mac to open the wrapped files, such as
StuffIt Expander. Unfortunately then it becomes a chicken-and-the-egg
situation if you need to download said program to open the wrapper,
since it will be in a wrapper too.
There have been programs written for MS-DOS and Windows which can open a
MacBinary file and write the contents to a Mac disk while retaining the
two forks and metadata (I think the shareware program TransMac can do it).
I don't know if there's anything like that available for Linux.
The other way is to get the utility you need on a floppy disk image.
This one has StuffIt Expander 4.5 and Disk Copy 6.2 on it.
http://roger.geek.nz/StuffItExpander.dmg.zip
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Roger Johnstone, Invercargill, New Zealand
http://roger.geek.nz/
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