Subject: Re: Make the boot disk visible under MacOS 9.
From: David C. Hacker, DVM (dh55145@alltel.net)
Date: Fri Jun 01 2001 - 13:34:46 MDT
You can use pdisk to change the partition to hfs
-- David C. Hacker, DVM 923 B St #32 Schuyler, NE 68661> From: Andrea Riciputi <ariciputi@pito.com> > Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com > Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 21:19:28 +0200 > To: "Yellow Dog Linux" <yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com> > Subject: Re: Make the boot disk visible under MacOS 9. > >> The bootstrap partition is of type "Apple_Bootstrap". This is not viewable >> from MacOS. What reason do you need to access this small partition from >> MacOS? > > It' a long story: I've a 64kbp connection at home (via an ISDN external > TA) and I can't use it under Linux. So I use MacOS (with that connection) > for long download, I put the dowloaded file in hfs partion and then I > reboot Linux. > > To make this trick works I need a large enough simple hfs partiton. I > thought that v2 would use a simple hfs partition like in v1.2 for booting > and I made it as large as 700MB to exchange file between MacOS and Linux. > > Now I'll have to re-partition and re-install Linux. Does anyone know a > simple way to get the unused disk space again available under MacOS 9 > (obviously without reformatting all the disk)?? > > Thanks in advance, > Andrea. > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > Riciputi Andrea > > mailto:ariciputi@iol.it > "On January 24th, Apple Computer will introduce Macintosh. > And you'll see why 1984 won't be like '1984' " > ---------------------------------------------------------- >
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