Ok, I found an IRC client on my Linux box that lets me lie about the server address, so I can DCC from my internal IP. Drivers copied! They're all StuffIt files and I have StuffIt Deluxe 3, StuffIt Lite and UnstuffIt 1. None of them will open the driver .sit file.
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Ok, fine. I manage to get a basic web browser installed so no more DCC. Ok, StuffIt 5 Expander is available. Download. Copy to Mac using Python http server and Mac browser. StuffIt Expander 5 is a MacBinary encoded file. It's also available as a zip file . I have neither.
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Manage to un MacBinary file in Linux. This gives a disk image. I do not have Disk Copy so I can't mount image. I go get Disk Copy. It's an MacBinary encoded self mounting image. I tried in MacBinarying this in Linux, but I get resource forks so I can't copy it to the Mac.
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I go get Mac Binary II. It's StuffIt encoded and my three StuffIt tools won't touch it. Need StuffIt Expander 5. Remember that?
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I find another copy of Stuff It Expander 5 which is zipped. I find three Unzip tools and YASS! One of them is StuffIt 2 packed and I can unpack it.
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I can have a StuffIt image I can't mount, and Disk Copy (which mounts images) in a format I can't unpack. Eventually (and it gets pretty hazy here), I find something that will unpack Mac Binary II.
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I can then unpack Disk Copy. I'm now out of disk space. I delete assume stuff. I now can't run Disk Copy for the first time because I have an image mounted already and it wants to upgrade a driver. I reboot.
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Mac tells me off for not shutting down properly. I realise I rebooted with the self mounting image mounted. And I had deleted the SMI trying to free up space. Go back, try again. Get Disk Copy installed. Can now mount and install Stuff It Expander 5.
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Now I can install the CD ROM Toolkit. It complains. I reboot. It complains again on startup about not being able to install some file system drivers. I ignore it. A CD icon appears on my desktop. VICTORY.
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I load "Around the world in 80 days", play it for two minutes, then go to bed. The moral is, don't do anything with a Classic Mac unless you have another Classic Mac with StuffIt Expander 5, and some way of transferring files on an HFS volume between them. Resource Forks suck.
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Holy crap, what an ordeal! Glad it worked in the end.
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