Classic MOL newbie question

[Brendan J Simon]

Christian Walther wrote:

>> Interesting.  Is this because you have the ease of MacOS-X with the 
>> benefits of BSD ???
>
> Yeah. Mac OS X "just works" (at least more so than Linux) and allows 
> me to do just about anything I'd want to. And I hate shutting down Mac 
> OS X, closing all my open applications, to boot Linux. 

Isn't that the point of MOL.  ie. you can run linux, macosx, and macos 
all at the same time.  You can even run Virtual PC too if you want.
Mind you I've had similar thoughts, mainly because XF86 is such a pig to 
configure.  It always is a pain and I have been unsuccesful to date with 
the PB17.

>> Not sure about he CD/DVD.  Will check this weekend.
>> Do you mean copy the system folder to the MacOS-X partition or the 
>> Linux partition ???
>
> The Mac OS X partition, or any other HFS(+) partition. Mac OS X can't 
> read ext2/3 partitions on its own (there's an open source driver for 
> it, though), and AFAIK Classic doesn't run off anything other than 
> HFS(+). 

Okie dokie.  I think I get it now.  I keep thinking I'm in linux land 
when I run MOL but I have to get my head around that it is a virtual 
machine so MacOS-9 and MacOS-X think they are running standalone and 
know nothing of linux, its filesystems or anyother feature.

Thanks,
Brendan Simon.