Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] convert ext3 -> hfs+

[lincr]

> Subject:
> Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] convert ext3 -> hfs+
> From:
> Jon Lee <leejadsl@××××××.net>
> Date:
> Fri, 29 Apr 2005 17:52:38 +0100
> To:
> gentoo-ppc-user@l.g.o
>
> Linux cannot handle HFS+ in any way.  I'm not even sure that HFS+ is 'open' to other types of OS to try to use, but I could be wrong it's only a partition type.  You can view ext2 (I don't know about ext3) in MacOSX by getting the ext2fs tool.  This will show up in System Preferences and allow you to 'see' the contents of the drive/partition.

This isn't true at all.  There is a set of utilities, I believe called 
hpxxx, such as hpmount, hpcd etcetera.  I've used it.  Do not use it on 
plain HFS partitions though, you will be sorry.

>
> There again, I'm not a Gentoo or even a Linux user.  My installation failed, and corrupted my partition map, and led to the loss of my OS X partition and 206 applications.
>
Sorry about your data, but Linux, like C, will give you plenty of rope. 
  Controlling the rope and avoiding hanging yourself is the tricky part :)

Speaking of hanging yourself, I am still trying to get Gentoo installed 
on an old iBook I have.  I cannot boot from CD (the drive is too old, 
won't read CDR/CDRWs).  I have tried putting the kernel, ramdisk, 
yaboot, and yaboot.conf on an HFS partition, and booting from OFW.  This 
works, but there is no way to get to the gcloop file.  The installer 
only looks for /dev/cdrom or hdc.  I have a firewire CDRW that I could 
use to install from, or I could put the file on a partition on the hard 
disk.  To use the firewire drive the kernel needs to be able to load the 
firewire modules, then boot from /dev/scd0 instead of hdc.
Any ideas?
I guess the next step is tearing into the ramdisk image and modifying it 
to match my system.  It will be a lot of work though.  Lots of fail, 
reboot, change, reboot, fail, etcetera...
Thanks, Lincr

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