Joost van de Griek wrote: >On 2003-02-13 17:26, "Fran Dollinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>Joost van de Griek wrote: >> >> >> >>>On 2003-02-13 16:43, "Fran Dollinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>>I just took a look also, the multipart (19parts) installer is what I used to >>>>make my floppies. >>>> >>>> >>>Okay, I'm very curious how you managed that. >>> >>>I downloaded System 7.5.3 12of19.part.bin, and tried to coax Disk Copy into >>>doing something other that throw me an error message with it, and failed. >>> >>> >>It's been almost a year ago that I did it...IIRC I had to download them in >>order because you have to have the first one (smi.bin) in order to do >>anything with the others. D/L #1-19 each on their own floppy and when you go >>to install you have to create a folder on the machine you want to install to >>and transfer each disk into that folder and then start from the #1 smi.bin. I >>remember it took me quite a long time to figure out the process with alot of >>going back and forth but perserverence paid off. If you seriously need this >>let me know and I'll try to reconstruct the process in depth for you. >> >> > >No, thanks. I guess we were both right. > >There is no way you can make a set of install floppies from those parts, >like I said. > >They do work together to make ONE SINGLE image that contains the installer. > >Technically, you didn't use the installer to make floppies; you used >floppies to transfer the installer image to a hard drive. > >,xtG >.tsooJ > > Yes, I see what you mean. I guess I go by...Whatever gets the job done, whether it be orthodox or just by luck. Having no formal training in any of this, I'm lucky that I can almost always fanagle stuff to come out with the desired effect.
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