Subject: Re: A few (lot?) queries from a neophyte
From: Rich Dolinsky (r.e.dolinsky@verizon.net)
Date: Wed Feb 27 2002 - 16:57:24 MST
hpmount will mount hfs+. Use as you would use mount
on 2/27/02 6:47 PM, Eric D. at liriodendron@mac.com wrote:
> on 27/2/02 16:34, nathan r. hruby at nhruby@arches.uga.edu wrote:
>
>>> Hello all, I'm slowly exposing myself to the wonderful [ly frustrating]
>>> world of Linux + YellowDog Linux 2.1.
>
>> Resolution in X? Edit /etc/X11/XF86Config or run Xconfigurator, or
>> xf86setup. This has gond round and round on the list, do use the archives
>> you should find a method that works for you there.
>
> So, there's no GUI based "control panel" to change this? (I'd seen the CLUI
> stuff in the archives but was hoping that there was something less
> intimidating).
>
>> access to HFS+ partitions can't be done. best you can do is mount a plain
>> ol HFS partition with mount -t hfs /dev/<device> /<mountpoint>
>> (mount is explained in further in the user guides - not sure what the
>> status of the HFS+ driver is or if there is one)
>
> I read that there was an "app" that could access HFS+ partitions (no
> specifics given on the YDL page where I read it). Seems rather odd that
> support doesn't exist since formatting a 1+ GB drive HFS results in a great
> waste of space (where a 1 byte file can take up, for example, 256 K)
>
>>> (3) How can you turn on/off the KDE virtual desktop option (kind of a cool
>>> feature)? Is it simple or does it involve lots of fiddling (can't find it in
>>> KDE's on-line help)?
>>
>> This is in the XF86Config as well. One of the setup tools mentioned above
>> should let you chnage it.
>
> Are there any documents that describe such tools without all the technical
> jargon (or extraneous information) of man pages?
>
>>> (6) If I set a Mac OS partition as a startup disk I lose the ability to boot
>>> the Linux partition. How can I reset the Linux parition as a startup
>>> partition (with yaboot... don't quite understand how that works but I
>>> presume it's the boot loader).
>>>
>>
>> See the archives http://lists.yellowdoglinux.com/ Essentailly startup
>> disk changes the same OpenFirmware settings that ybin does. I have my
>> piso set yto boot the linux partition only when holding spacebar at boot
>> (as from the 1.2.1 setup guide) which works well too. Tehre is also
>> documentation on the YDL website that should tell you how to do a triboot
>> as well as in the archives. this is probbaly what you want to look for.
>
> I think I'm already doing what you're describing. I already have a triboot
> system (OS 9 default (m), OS X (x) and Linux (l)). My problem is that when I
> set the OS 9 or X partitions as the startup disk in the Mac OS Startup Disk
> control panel, I lose the ability to boot the Linux partition. Are there OS
> 9 apps that allow you to set the Linux boot partition, or is there some way
> to activate an "OpenFirmware" command (on a B&W, 2nd Rev (option doesn't
> seem to work on restart)) that will allow you to set an alternate boot
> partition?
>
>> Sound, I dunno (my servers don't need sound :) networking can be setup
>> with netcfg if you didn't do it at install time. also read the net HOWTO.
>> kpp has been said to work well for dialup connections, but I haven't used
>> a modem in so long that I couldn't tell you for sure.
>
> I have internet working fine -- I need AppleTalk (and/or Novell Netware)
> functionality to access the department's server and printer (not that I
> really need it in my YDL install, but I want to learn (I just don't want to
> learn too many CLUI commands -- with any luck CLUI will be dead as a dodo
> bird for anything expect for scripting or programming, even on Linux, in a
> year or two)).
>
> Thanks for the helpful comments Nathan & Stephanie.
>
> L8r, Eric.
>
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