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Q: mac plus - system 6 images

hey guys,

 

i recently picked up a mac plus and have downloaded the system 6 images from the support section.  unfortunately, when i use stuffit to try and expand the images, it tells me that "the stuffit engine was unable to determine the format"

 

any suggestions?

Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.6.8), 2.16 core 2 duo

Posted on Nov 14, 2013 8:44 PM

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Q: mac plus - system 6 images

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  • by kaz-k,Helpful

    kaz-k kaz-k Nov 14, 2013 10:18 PM in response to d8thstar
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    Nov 14, 2013 10:18 PM in response to d8thstar

    Try The Unarchiver which is available at Mac App store for free.

  • by d8thstar,

    d8thstar d8thstar Nov 14, 2013 10:55 PM in response to kaz-k
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    Nov 14, 2013 10:55 PM in response to kaz-k

    bingo!  thank you!

  • by Jan Hedlund,

    Jan Hedlund Jan Hedlund Nov 15, 2013 1:23 AM in response to d8thstar
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    Nov 15, 2013 1:23 AM in response to d8thstar

    Please note that the Macintosh Plus cannot use 1.44 MB (HD) floppies. 800K (on DSDD/2DD diskettes) is the maximum size.

     

    External USB floppy drives are not capable of handling the special 800K Mac format. Instead, a pre-1998 Macintosh computer with a built-in floppy drive will have to be used in order to create working 800K floppy disks from downloaded disk images.

     

    The files at the Apple download site are encoded MacBinary (.bin). Usually, it is a good idea to keep this encoding unaltered until on the computer where the system disks are to be made. Once there, an appropriate version of StuffIt Expander can be used to decode the .bin.

     

    Jan

  • by Jan Hedlund,

    Jan Hedlund Jan Hedlund Nov 15, 2013 3:00 AM in response to Jan Hedlund
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    Nov 15, 2013 3:00 AM in response to Jan Hedlund

    Addendum

     

    On the pre-1998 Macintosh computer, Disk Copy 4.2 (the Make A Copy button) or Disk Copy 6.3.3 (the Make a Floppy command under the Utilities menu) would be used to create valid sector-copies from the disk images.

     

    http://www.info.apple.com/support/oldersoftwarelist.html#util

     

    In order to avoid confusing error messages, if applicable, do not set the StuffIt Expander preferences to mount images.