On Fri, 6 Jul 2001, Gregg Eshelman wrote:
>
> --- Jay Jay Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hello everybody!
> >
> > This is my problem: I was playing with the
> > partitions of my new LC II to put
> > linux inside, as a result I destroyed the mac os
> > instalation in the hardisk.
> > When I was installing the macos from my floppies, I
> > saw that the types disk
> > (Tipos in spanish) was missing, well I searched it
> > in Internet and I found
> > it, but in a .image file, a last the question is:
> > How I create a disk from
> > that image without the mac(because now is virtually
> > dead)? I want to know if
> > there are any pc program or linux program to create
> > a mac disk from an
> > .image file.
> >
> > Thanks ;)
>
> Sounds like the Fonts disk. :) I've heard that you
> can use a program called RAWRITE which works in DOS
> mode or in a DOS session under windows. RAWRITE
> is available from most Linux sites like
> ftp.slackware.org You'll need to decode the image from
> BinHex (HQX extention) or MacBinary (BIN extention)
> before using RAWRITE. WinZip can decode HQX.
> Apparently with Disk Copy images, the resource fork
> is only needed by Disk Copy, the actual disk data
> is all in the resource fork. I suppose the main
> thing DC uses the resource for for is stashing the
> checksum info. Unfortunately it has no option to
> "Just mount the #@%@ image anyway!" No resource fork
> on your image file, Disk Copy no worky. :P
I assume you meant that the actual disk image data is in the DATA FORK,
not the resource fork. I used RAWRITE on the PC to write a Mac .image
file to a disk, and it worked fine! (But it has to be the raw .image
format that some Mac Disk Image programs use...)
- Jamal
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