Transfer files from Mac (7.5.1) to Slackware
 

I have an old Mac with system 7.5.1 or 8.something. It has old art our son and daughter did in KidPix. They are bitmaps. The Mac has a floppy but none of my XP machines will read them. The Mac is not networkable. Since Mac and slackware are both unix I was thinking...

I have a slackware machine that I am thinking could mount a floppy and allow us to get the old files off.

Can someone help me on formatting a floppy that the Mac and the slackware machine can read to server as a "sneakernet" to get these old but priceless pics off the old Mac (before the Mac goes bye-bye)?

Any version of Mac before OSX 10.0 is not unix based only OSX is

Google lately?
Mac floppies use the hfs filesystem which is supported in linux.

when you insert the "mac formated" floppy into your Slackware machine, mount it with "mount /dev/fda /mnt/floppy -t hfs" to read the files from it. Replace floppy device number and mount point to taste. Should work in any linux as long as it has hfs modules installed (ls /lib/modules/`uname -r`/ | grep hfs) or compiled into the kernel

As stated if you have the hfs module available (built-in or as loaded module) it should mount just fine.