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Old 01-21-2008, 07:49 PM   #1
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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)?
 
Old 01-21-2008, 08:03 PM   #2
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Any version of Mac before OSX 10.0 is not unix based only OSX is
 
Old 01-21-2008, 08:28 PM   #3
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Mac floppies use the hfs filesystem which is supported in linux.
 
Old 01-21-2008, 08:45 PM   #4
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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
 
Old 01-22-2008, 12:04 PM   #5
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As stated if you have the hfs module available (built-in or as loaded module) it should mount just fine.
 
  


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