Getting files from linux to Mac via MOL

Rich Dolinsky yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Thu May 2 08:06:01 2002


hpmount will also mount hfs drives like hmount does hfs.  Quirky, but it
works well enough most of the time

on 5/2/02 6:24 AM, Simon White at simon@mtds.com wrote:

> 01-May-02 at 22:19, Joe Buczek (joe_buczek@yahoo.com) wrote :
>> Grettings. I'm running YDL 2.1 on an ibook2. I've got some fairly
>> enormous audio files on my linux partition that I want to got over
>> to my Mac partition for further twiddling. As I'm typing this, I'm
>> ftp'ing them with Internet Explorer under MOL, using my ftpd on
>> linux. It seems there must be a more efficient way to do this.
>> 
> 
> FTP is not such a bad way to do that... in Linux you can mount HFS
> directly, but not HFS+. You could create an HFS partition to share data
> between MacOS and Linux, but it can't be too big due to inherent problems
> with HFS on larger disks.
> 
> But from time to time, FTP ain't so bad. You should get good transfer
> rates anyway, right?