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Posted by: CC_333 on 2014-11-27 13:49:55
Agreed. That's the same sort of premise that's behind the Internet Archive, if my understanding is correct.
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Posted by: Unknown_K on 2014-11-27 16:06:50
Will all of the stuff fit on a DVD? If so somebody want to burn me one?
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Posted by: max1zzz on 2014-11-28 05:37:26
It might just fit on a DL DVD
I could burn you one, but you might be better sourcing it from someone in the US, shipping from the UK would be expensive.
Or you can just download it, someone posted a link a few pages back, and you should just be able to wget my copy aswell
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Posted by: snuci on 2014-11-28 06:52:15
With all the languages, it's almost 12GB.
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Posted by: max1zzz on 2014-11-28 08:09:31
I must be missing stuff then, my copy comes out at 8.75GB (so no chance of getting it on a DL dvd anyway)
I'm guessing it's the os9 updates that i'm missing
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Posted by: techknight on 2014-11-28 18:38:56
whats 12GB? everything thats on the FTP?
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Posted by: snuci on 2014-11-28 19:08:26
Yes, everything on the copy of the former http://download.info.apple.com I have is almost 12GB. I'm not exactly sure where I got my copy of the site but i added Sherry's files and it's almost 12GB. I was kinda surprised myself when I checked.
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Posted by: olePigeon on 2014-11-28 20:49:20
Since this is all the free software, someone could seed a torrent file.
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Posted by: Unknown_K on 2014-11-28 20:51:44
A torrent would work for me.
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Posted by: techknight on 2014-11-29 05:03:47
With all the languages, it's almost 12GB. Have a link? Only for english tho.
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Posted by: snuci on 2014-11-29 05:51:22
The Internet Archive site has everything (I think) minus the files Sherry made available.
Since this is all the free software, someone could seed a torrent file. Here's a Torrent to the Internet Archive site:
https://archive.org/download/download.info.apple.com.2012.11/download.info.apple.com.2012.11_archive.torrent
Once you download that, download Sherry's files for 9.x upgrades. If someone could take Sherry's files and use the same directory structure, someone could create a zip file and seed the 9.X archive as a Torrent and overlay the 9.X files so it is complete.
I'll check my files and see if thee is any difference this weekend. I think the Internet Archive is the same. It's just smaller because it's a zip file.
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Posted by: max1zzz on 2014-11-29 14:10:42
One small problem, Sherry's north American files have all had the resfork stripped and are no longer mountable
Any chance you can stuff them (or binhex them) and reupload?
Seems to only be those 3 files, looks like all the other languages are binhex'd so are fine 🙂
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Posted by: CC_333 on 2014-11-29 16:23:15
I found this whilst browsing Mac Garden: http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/updaters-%E2%80%93-mac-os-9x-english-us
The files appear to be binhex-ed or at least stuffed, so they ought to survive transfers OK. They appear to be the North American versions as well.
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Posted by: danda on 2014-12-24 13:06:42
we're only allowed to redistribute up to 7.5.5 legally Where did you get this information? I was not aware of this. If this is true, then great! That would basically do all my systems.
Also, it has been a while and I have still not received a reply from Tim Cook. I may try going through the "conventional" Apple Support site.
Has anyone got a reply from Tim Cook about this?
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Posted by: max1zzz on 2014-12-25 08:06:22
6.0.8, 7.0.1 and 7.5.3 (+ the 7.5.5 update) are available free, but afaik only apple is allowed to distribute them. Not that they will chase anyone for distributing them.
Other OS's (older or newer) are not included int his as far as i know (but the same goes, is apple really going to chase someone distributing OS 1.1)
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Posted by: Paralel on 2014-12-25 19:08:14
Yeah, the 7.1.x series is the big hole in the System 7 releases that one is allowed to hand out for free. None of those are available for release. So, 7.0.1 or 7.5.3 but nothing in-between.
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Posted by: olePigeon on 2014-12-26 11:51:09
Does anyone know the reason behind 7.1 being the only one not available? Could it be some sort of deal with IBM or Motorola?
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Posted by: Macdrone on 2014-12-26 12:35:30
Not sure.
I can't seem to find a copy in my stash or any update disks to get it to it.
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Posted by: TheWhiteFalcon on 2014-12-26 12:52:06
I've got it on the PowerBook 160/180 restore disks, I can look later. Anything in particular I should look for?
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Posted by: Macdrone on 2014-12-26 14:07:11
I was just saying that if I had update disks from 7 to 7.1 I would have got it from apple online so 7.1 should not be any different I would think in its distribution.
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