What utilities exist for the Macintosh that might help?
• MacOS 7.0.1 System 7 (required by Penguin) is available for free from Apple. System 7.5.2 is known to fix some problems with disabling the video interrupts on the Mac IIsi and IIci that may prevent Linux from running correctly. However, 7.5.2 is very buggy, so if you actually plan to use MacOS, you will obviously want to upgrade to 7.5.5. Furthermore, System 7.5 is horribly slow on 68030-based Macs, and none of them require it to boot (unlike most 68040-based Macs), so unless you really need it you are better off with 7.0.1 or 7.1. • Mode32 This fix for “dirty” ROMS in several machines. (see the section on it, above) I don’t know if Penguin needs it, but it has been known to spell the difference between booting and not in cases. • Stuffit Expander This is mostly useful for reading Apple documentation that has been compressed using the proprietary StuffIt format. If you want to compress and decompress files with gzip instead, you can get MacGzip, which is Free Software, from any decen
