[Freeflyer]

Hi, my wife just bought a 12" powerbook (Rev A), and has a teach yourself german cd that she wants to run on it.

It has instructions for installing on macs, but it looks like the installer is for OS9. If you put the cd in, it's supposed to show you the installer icon, but it doesn't. I guess OSX doesn't recognise it.

If I boot classic, there doesn't seem to be a way to view the cd from within the classic environment (no finder window). So I can't figure out how to install it.

Can anyone suggest how to do this.

Thanks,

J.

[gorickey]

The CD is mounting, correct? If so, what are you seeing?

[Freeflyer]

When the cd mounts, you see it fine. Nothing auto starts though. When I open the cd in finder, the files are as follows:

Acrobat3
Autorun (folder containing .exe and .inf files)
Autorun.inf.
EREG (folder containing registration details)
Help.hlp
HGASRAPI (folder containing ASRAPI16 and 32)
INST_16
INST_32 (folders containing .exe files, DLL's and a .pkg file.
QT16 and QY32 .exe files
TLC.Z
and then the .mov files that make up the lessons.

All the above seem to be windows files, and I couldn't find a file that could run on the mac.

Any suggestions? We've tried contacting the publisher, and they've failed to reply.

Thanks,

J.

[Developer]

That looks like a lot of Windows stuff. It is possible that the Mac installer is in an invisible folder.
I think you can turn of displaying invisible files/folder in the Finder with Tinkertool. Maybe you can find the installer that way. Of course you could also look at it using the Terminal.

[Freeflyer]

Hi,

I'd checked in terminal, and the same files are there (ls -al).

What would an installer file be named or have as an extension for mac to recognise it.

This looks like it just isn't going to work.

Cheers,

J.