Have you tried mtools or macutils? This is if you have access to
another box. I know there are several utilities that let you access mac
floppies on a pc. One of them is MacDisk by Insignia Solutions.
Stephen
Jan Wynholds wrote:
> Hey all:
>
> Just wanted to pass along some info about the little project I have undertaken
> regarding the macs that are being rather unwielding to my efforts at installing
> linux.
>
> Chris and I were trying to format and read disks. After some digging on the
> net, I found that those macs use 800k disks. And this is a bad thing b/c pc's
> cannot read or write these disks (the geometry is so different). So I have no
> method of transport for these. So I am looking at 1.4 mb drives on ebay for
> these models. If anyone would sell an external 1.44 mb drive for the mac, you
> would be my hero.
>
> So if anyone has any macintosh junk laying around the home or office that they
> want to sell/give/throw away, I will scrounge it and give you a reasonable
> price for it.
>
> This has been fun, tho. I haven't done alot of technical crap with macs
> (mostly just typing papers and that sort of thing). It's fun to go digging
> through the guts of it.
>
> :)
>
> J
>
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