Mac-on-Linux?

[Joshua Wehner]

On Feb 25, 2005, at 11:29 AM, Tommy Trussell wrote:

> On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 11:19:27 -0600, Joshua Wehner
> <josh.wehner at ultratec.com> wrote:
>> On Feb 25, 2005, at 11:07 AM, Joshua Wehner wrote:
>> [root at MarComm mnt]# mkdir /mnt/mac1
>> [root at MarComm mnt]# hmount /dev/hdb6 /mnt/mac1
>> Volume name is "Mac OS 9"
>> Volume was created on Thu Feb 24 13:56:26 2005
>> Volume was last modified on Fri Feb 25 11:09:28 2005
>> Volume has 1503321088 bytes free
>> [root at MarComm mnt]# cd /mnt/mac1
>> [root at MarComm mac1]# ls
>> [root at MarComm mac1]# ls -la
>> total 8
>> drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Feb 25 11:13 .
>> drwxr-xr-x  5 root root 4096 Feb 25 11:13 ..
>> [root at MarComm mac1]#
>>
>> The Volume name is indeed "Mac OS 9", so that's right. I'm not sure 
>> why
>> I can't see anything there, though? Could that be the source of MOL's
>> problems?
>
> No, probably not -- as I mentioned before, the hfsutils commands don't
> act like normal linux commands. When you hmount a volume, note in the
> man page that it doesn't ask for a mount point -- it's not mounted as
> far as linux is concerned.
>
> SO what you do is hmount the volume, and to see what's on it you use
> the hls command and to copy you use hcopy and then when you're done
> you humount. Using those utilities, the volume never becomes a mount
> point in linux, but you can get things from it. In Debian there's an
> hfsutils man page -- try "man hfsutils" and maybe it can give you some
> hints. But since hmount didn't give you an error it's probably OK.
>

Ah. Got it. With hls, I can see normal Mac things. Apple Extras, 
Applications, etc.

So, the /dev/hdb6 is hfs-mountable, I think.



-- Joshua