installing OS X from within MoL

[Joost Kremers]

On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 01:08:55PM -0600, stuporglue wrote:
> > another question: if OS X is installed from within MoL, will it be able to
> > boot by itself, i.e., without MoL?
> > 
> I seem to remember that it won't be able to.

ok, good to know. it's not really an issue, i won't be using OS X so much
anyway. just wanna be informed. ;-)

> However, you should be
> able to create an HFS+ partition from within slackware. In gentoo, I
> think it's called hfstools or something. It should produce a program
> called mkfs.hfsplus.

that's an interesting idea. i've done some googling, and it seems that
hfstools is more commonly called hfsutils, and is available for gentoo:
<http://packages.gentoo.org/ebuilds/?hfsutils-3.2.6-r3>. this, however,
doesn't AFAICS contain a mkfs.hfsplus.

there is, however, the possibility to compile the newfs_hfs (and fsck_hfs)
utilities from Darwin for linux, using the appropriate patches:

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=105232028304608&w=2

and 

http://www.mail-archive.com/cooker@linux-mandrake.com/msg111550.html

may be worth looking into.

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Joost Kremers
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