Looking for a disc image mounter capable of mounting toast cd images that are on another (newer) mac. I've got a ethernet card hooked up to my LCIII and am able to mount a fileshare on my current computer. Toast doesn't like mounting disk images that are on a remote drive - and that's the problem. The image is 300+MB and the hard drive is only 160MB (and mostly full at that).
So... any suggestions - please!
Found a solution for anyone interested. Mount disk image with toast on newer computer. Use Disc Copy 6 in classic mode to make disk copy 6 disk image. With diskcopy 6 on LCIIIl, mount remote image. For some reason disk copy 6 works fine over the network - must be something with toast.
Thanks for sharing the solution. I know Disk Utility of Mac OS X doesn't work as it doesn't create the required Disk Copy .img files, but only its own .dmg files (.cdr as well, but this doesn't matter in this case).
How about the sneakerware approach? Get an external 1Gb SCSI-harddrive or Iomega Jaz-drive and physically attach it to yout LCIII. I'd invest in an internal 4Gb SCSI drive anyway. If you're feeling brave, you could buy a new SCA-drive get an 80-pin-to-50-pin adapter, attach to your LCIII (externally) and configure many, many 600Mb partitions.
It's a toughie, two issues:
- CD-ROM was only just happening, and only on Mac, when the PowerPC chip arrived. I don't know of any CD burners available for 68k Mac. The best optical device you could hope for, mainstream, was a 2x CD-ROM.
- Nobody ever heard of a hard disk drive big enough to hold a CD-ROM image at the time. I can remember spending a fortune going through disk upgrades, 40MB stock to 100MB, to 170MB to 330MB to 500MB. I only got my first 3.2GB FireBall well after PPC was around - by 1998 even disk drives were 4GB - 10GB (I remember buying 750 9GB disks for a (2) Unix mainframes).
But, there was MO (Magneto-Optical) drive technology available around 68030 / 68040. Extremely expensive, but there may have been software allowing you to image the discs.
I am confused....
I am using a SCSI CD-burner myself with my 68k macs, and it works perfectly.
Also, several external SCSI harddrives, ranging from 20 MB to 3.2 GB, all working perfectly with the same 68k macs.
In addition, I also have two SyQuest drives, with discs @ 44 MB, 88 MB, 200 MB, if memory serves me correctly (I rarely use them anymore).
So what's the issue? Is it difficult to find used burners or HD's? (I wouldn't know, since I bought my hardware when it was new.)
Of course you're right, but I was trying to make the point that in the age of m68k:
Edit: Replaced 'xxx 7' by 'Mac OS 7' - IIGS User
But still, availability, cost and suitabillity don't matter if there is just one piece of m68k software that can create / mount ISO / Toast images.
I have demos of Toast 3 and Toast 1.7, but even these are 1995 / 1996, well into the PPC era.
