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| CDs from Powerbook to a Color Classic - not working |
Posted by: mraroid on 2016-03-26 05:13:53
I have Toast 5.2.3 up and running on my powerbook.
So, Toast is a good tool to build CDs and DVDs for my Color Classic?
jack
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Posted by: MikeatOSX on 2016-03-26 05:18:23
It's the best tool, you can get!
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Posted by: Bunsen on 2016-03-27 22:37:44
The only real advantages, off the top of my head, to running OS 9 on a bridge machine, would be access to a floppy drive and serial Localtalk / Appletalk ports. And the G4 Powerbook doesn't have those, so.
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Posted by: mraroid on 2016-03-28 07:46:46
Bunsen.... My friend has a USB floppy drive made for a PC. Do you think it might work if I plugged it into my powerbook? I have some blank 1.44 floppies - and some with data on them..... ??
jack
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Posted by: rsolberg on 2016-03-28 18:49:06
That USB floppy drive will probably work great. I've used a lot of them on 10.5.X machines and they've all worked. Disks usually come preformatted as FAT12 aka MS-DOS, IBM, PC. You should format them as Mac floppies before using them to transfer applications, installers, self extracting archives, etc. as the resource fork of the files won't copy on a DOS floppy. You can initialize/format them in the Color Classic or with the PowerBook.
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Posted by: Bunsen on 2016-03-28 21:59:29
From OS 9? Yes, I think it should work. Bear in mind you will only be able to make, read or write 1.44MB Mac disks though, 800kB and 400kB disks are not going to happen.
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