CDs from Powerbook to a Color Classic - not working

[mraroid]

I have Toast 5.2.3 up and running on my powerbook. 

So, Toast is a good tool to build CDs and DVDs for my Color Classic?

jack

 

[MikeatOSX]

It's the best tool, you can get!

 

[Bunsen]

The only real advantages, off the top of my head, to running OS 9 on a bridge machine, would be access to a floppy drive and serial Localtalk / Appletalk ports.  And the G4 Powerbook doesn't have those, so.

 

[mraroid]

Bunsen....  My friend has a USB floppy drive made for a PC.  Do you think it might work if I plugged it into my powerbook?  I have some blank 1.44 floppies - and some with data on them.....  ??

jack

 

[rsolberg]

That USB floppy drive will probably work great. I've used a lot of them on 10.5.X machines and they've all worked. Disks usually come preformatted as FAT12 aka MS-DOS, IBM, PC. You should format them as Mac floppies before using them to transfer applications, installers, self extracting archives, etc. as the resource fork of the files won't copy on a DOS floppy. You can initialize/format them in the Color Classic or with the PowerBook.

 

[Bunsen]

From OS 9?  Yes, I think it should work.  Bear in mind you will only be able to make, read or write 1.44MB Mac disks though, 800kB and 400kB disks are not going to happen.