Re: [gentoo-user] mount mac disks?

[Mark Shields]

I imagine millions of fanboys of Mac OSX must be crying out to hear you call
it "BSD Linux". It's based on BSD. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSX

On 10/15/05, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:
>
> Good afternoon,
> Not a topic I see come up a lot. I finally bought my first Mac - a
> Mac Mini - and I'm fiddling around with external 1394 drives. If I use
> MSDOS as a file system for the drive then I have no trouble mounting
> the drive on any of my systems, but it made me wonder if I can format
> the drive using an Apple native partition type and mount that under
> Gentoo?
>
> Is it possible?
>
> I had been assuming that since OS X is based on BSD Linux that it
> would be happy mounting ext3 drives but it doesn't mount them at all,
> at least using their default tools that recognized a 1394 drive when
> it's plugged in.
>
> Thanks in advance for info in this area. I've never used a Mac and
> bought this one on a whim after selling my x86 laptop. Not sure if I'm
> going to continue running OS X on it or whether I might try Gentoo.
>
> Cheers,
> Mark
>
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