Fallingwater
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- Oct 10, 2009
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I have a Powerbook 145b I'm using for writing. Unfortunately it has a dead hard drive, so I'm booting off a system floppy I managed to install TeachText on (no, using the super-expensive flash card interface is not an option). There is nothing on the floppy but the system and the text editor, but even that leaves me with only about 80kb free for my text files. Wondering whether there was some way to further pare down the system I tried looking for the MacOS files, but I don't know how to handle them.
Opening the floppy in HFV Explorer there's a "system files" directory which contains a "system" file and a "finder" file. They get copied to Windows as a 852kb "system.bin" and a 293kb "finder.bin". What do I do with these? Can they be opened and tinkered with?
Is there any way of slimming down either of them? I'm thinking since this is a universal System7 disk it must contain various drivers for systems different than my Powerbook, and since I don't need them I could perhaps delete them and gain back some much-needed space.
I do not have access to any other Apple computers, new or old, but I can run Linux if needed.
Opening the floppy in HFV Explorer there's a "system files" directory which contains a "system" file and a "finder" file. They get copied to Windows as a 852kb "system.bin" and a 293kb "finder.bin". What do I do with these? Can they be opened and tinkered with?
Is there any way of slimming down either of them? I'm thinking since this is a universal System7 disk it must contain various drivers for systems different than my Powerbook, and since I don't need them I could perhaps delete them and gain back some much-needed space.
I do not have access to any other Apple computers, new or old, but I can run Linux if needed.