A few MOL questions

[Marcio Luis Teixeira]

Hi there,

I've sucessfully booted Mac OS X under MOL on a dual-processor G4 and for the 
most part, it seems to be working well. This is great! As a long-time Linux 
user, I wanted to try Mac OS X, but not be locked in to it or having to 
commit to it full-time -- MOL lets me do just that! This is one incredibly 
amazing piece of software!

Anyhow, initial configuration was pretty easy, but now I have a few questions 
and minor issues to resolve:

1) The icon for the disk drive on the Mac OS X desktop does not appear. I get 
the label ("MacintoshHD") under the place where the icon would be, but no 
icon. I can still open the drive by double-clicking it. This problem only 
shows up when running Mac OS X under MOL. Very strange. Any ideas?

2) I have MOL set to run on the console. I am able to use the Mac OS X display 
control panel to change the monitor resolution to 1280x1024, and MOL changes 
the resolution appropriately, but Mac OS X does not let me pick a refresh 
rate any higher than 60Hz (all the other choices are grayed). At that 
resolution, 60Hz isn't quite adequate and the image sort of shimmers. I know 
that my monitor supports much higher refresh rates at that resolution (up to 
80Hz, I think). How can I get MacOS/MOL to recognize that frequency? I 
believe part of the problem is that "molvconfig" does not probe for anything 
higher than 60Hz at that resolution. I do not think this is a XFree86 
configuration problem since I'm able to get a flicker-free image at the same 
resolution on my Linux desktop.

3) I would like to set up networking, but I'm not sure which method I want to 
use yet. It would be cool if both OSes could be visible on the network so I 
could "telnet" to either one -- is this even possible with a single NIC? I 
didn't think so, but the instructions for "Basic Networking" say that each OS 
gets its own IP, so it seems to imply that it is possible. Can anyone clarify 
how this works and what it is capable of?

4) For the "Advanced Networking" method, using the masquerading, the docs in 
the user guide are sparse and carries the message "More documentation will be 
added later...". Are any more up-to-date docs or HOW-TOs available, in case I 
want to give that a try?

5) What's the best way to share data between the two OSes? I read somewhere 
that HFS+ is not supported under Linux -- is this still the case? How about 
"ext3" under Mac OS X? If I can't do a direct mount, can I use the AppleTalk 
services under Linux to export a drive for Mac OS X to use, or NFS under Mac 
OS X to export a drive to Linux?

Right now, I know zilch about Mac OS X, so if the answer to these questions 
are dead-obvious to a Mac OS X person, I apologize for my ignorance.

Marcio Luis Teixeira