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Title: Anyone have a Mac with a CD-Burner?
Post by: Chris Swingler on 2003-01-31T22:34:11-06:00 (Friday)
I need system 7.5.3 on a CD-ROM to get it on my Macintosh SE.  But if I take the images and try to burn them on my PC, I end up corrupting the resource fork.  So, any kind soul wanna make me an OS 7.5.3 CD, or know of a Mac somewhere on campus that I can use?

Thanks!

--Beanie
Title: Re: Anyone have a Mac with a CD-Burner?
Post by: Guest on 2003-02-01T15:48:25-06:00 (Saturday)
It's really difficult to burn Mac images on a pc.  Like you said, the resource fork normaly ends up getting trashed.  I have a burner on my Mac so I think I can help you out.
Title: Re: Anyone have a Mac with a CD-Burner?
Post by: Chris Swingler on 2003-02-01T17:16:46-06:00 (Saturday)
I'd really appreciate that, Rob.  The FTP site is ftp://ftp.apple.com/Apple_Support_Area/Apple_Software_Updates/English-North_American/Macintosh/System/Older_System/System_7.5_Version_7.5.3

It's a self-compiling disc image, so I'm not sure what the easiest way to make it work would be.  I can't have anything written to my hard disk, as the total for all that stuff comes to about 50MB, and my poor little SE has 22.7MB (out of 40 :-o ) to spare right now.

I got this little mac for free quite a while ago, and I was lucky enough to find an ethernet card in it.  So, I'm gonna try to get this system running on the school network, and possibly run a small web server out of it.  (Think of the possibilites of what I could host!  Maybe an HTML document containing the text "This is a mac.")

Okay, back to staring lovingly into a screen full of flying toasters... :-)

--Beanie
Title: Re: Anyone have a Mac with a CD-Burner?
Post by: Guest on 2003-02-02T07:27:49-06:00 (Sunday)
Burned and ready for delivery.  Wierd though...the image wouldn't mount under OS X.  I had to boot up using 9.2 and do the burn.  Oh well, all is well and right with the world now.
Title: Re: Anyone have a Mac with a CD-Burner?
Post by: Kade P. Cole on 2003-02-03T09:59:38-06:00 (Monday)
These machines make GREAT web servers. They just run forever. Go MAC!

Title: Re: Anyone have a Mac with a CD-Burner?
Post by: William Grim on 2003-02-03T12:50:19-06:00 (Monday)
Hey, if you ever get the mac running and can actually display an HTML file ... speaking of that, would that be too much data storage for the mac?  I mean, you don't have much space, and "This is a mac" is shorter than "This is a mac.."

Anyway, if you get it running, you have to show me :-)
Title: Re: Anyone have a Mac with a CD-Burner?
Post by: Jason Vipond on 2003-02-03T13:03:20-06:00 (Monday)
All the Macs in the Multimedia Lab (Dunham Hall, 1st floor) are equipped with CD burners.
Title: Re: Anyone have a Mac with a CD-Burner?
Post by: Chris Swingler on 2003-02-03T16:45:27-06:00 (Monday)
C'mon... give the Mac a little credit... I can run Lynx and Mosiac on it right now.  Serving will be the difficult part, I've got to find a _really_ lightweight web server for the Mac.

And, I should find a little uptime app.  There's something I could put on the webpage--a hit counter and the computer's uptime :-D

--Beanie
Title: Re: Anyone have a Mac with a CD-Burner?
Post by: Guest on 2003-02-03T20:14:30-06:00 (Monday)
Mac's are the bomb!

...and that's all I got to say about that.
Title: Re: Anyone have a Mac with a CD-Burner?
Post by: Chris Swingler on 2003-02-04T00:17:37-06:00 (Tuesday)
oooh... now I'm sure I can pull this off..

http://home.xnet.com/~lisa2/Main.html

A webserver on a _Lisa_!

--Beanie