Re: Yellowdog Linux on Mac drives: HFS, or HFS+ ?


Subject: Re: Yellowdog Linux on Mac drives: HFS, or HFS+ ?
From: Nathan A. McQuillen (nmlists@steaky.dhs.org)
Date: Sun Oct 29 2000 - 13:36:49 MST


Linux can't mount or otherwise deal with HFS+ formatted drives, AFAIK.
Other than that it should be no problem -- you just won't be able to get
at the Mac files from the Linux end.

What are you going to use to partition the drive?

-N

On Sun, 29 Oct 2000, Jim Kroger wrote:

> Hi, my first post here (hope it's ok). I'm about to try Linux on my
> mac, and have a 9 gig scsi external drive. Thought I'd partition it
> to two halves and install Linux on one. I remember seeing something
> about not being able to use HFS+ (extended format), but maybe it was
> something about Mac OS X.
>
> Thanks for any help....
>
> Jim
>
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