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- Richard Hakim (rhakim@macbeth.neuro.uottawa.ca) wrote:
- : WOW!
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- : I just downloaded the Executor demos for Linux and Dos a few days ago,
- : and I must say I'm impressed! I've always been a bit of a Mac wannabe,
- : but have never had the cash to support both Mac and IBM-clones... :)
-
- : I've got a bit of a burning question though. I have a Mac portable hard
- : drive (a Joule 1080 MB), and have put an old (bios-less Trantor T128)
- : SCSI card in my system (a P90 running Win95 and Linux). I'd like to get
- : Executor to read and run programs off my portable HD. It says this is
- : possible in the docs, but so far I haven't had any success. Under Win
- : 95, the problem seems to be that Windows doesn't even recognize the SCSI
- : card, so of course, it doesn't see the HD. Under Linux (I'm more
- : hopeful about getting things going under Linux, really), I've got SCSI
- : support built into a 1.3.30 kernel, and Linux does indeed see the SCSI
- : card, but Executor doesn't read the drive. I've tried setting the
- : MacVolumes env. varialbe to "/dev/sda", and running as both root and as
- : a user. No luck. Then I tried setting /dev/sda to mount user,noauto
- : (like it says in the FAQ) and then setting the env. variable. This time
- : I noticed the HD light blink _once_ when Executor first started up. No
- : luck in finding the drive, however.
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- : If anyone could help, I'd be really appreciative. If this works at all,
- : I plan to register immediately. You have no idea how hard I've been
- : looking for a Mac emulator/file converter...It's great to see something
- : like this make so much progress!
-
- : Richard Hakim
- : rhakim@magi.com
-
- --
- About win95.... you should get the scsi-drivers, after that you
- could get some hope.
- ... and linux: try mounting the drive and using it with e2fs...
-
- -jk
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- From: "Ernst J. Oud" <ernstoud@euronet.nl>
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- Subject: Re: Who can tell me where to download Mac emulator for PC?
- Date: 12 Feb 1996 18:15:03 GMT
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- look for exec199q.exe
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- Ernst J. Oud
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