Semi newbie question

GDB-B&W-YDL3.0.1 yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Sat, 04 Sep 2004 20:58:54 -0400


David Chart wrote:

> GDB-B&W-YDL3.0.1 wrote:
>
>> What's the best way to share an osx partition while running ydl?  The 
>> machine is a B&W G3 400 Mhz, 80Gb HD, 896 Mb RAM running ydl 3.0.1 
>> and os 10.3.5.  Here is the line I'm using in my fstab file to mount 
>> the partition:
>>
>> /dev/hda10 /home/doug/osx hfs defaults 0 0
>>
>> It doesn't produce the results I was hoping for.  I basically want to 
>> be able to share files between ydl and osx.
>>
>
> The OSX partition is HFS+, right? You'll need to enable HFS+ support 
> in the kernel. The instructions are on the YDL website -- it's 
> supposed to be easy in 3.0.1. (I've never done it, because I keep a 
> separate 1 gig HFS partition for moving files. On occasion, that empty 
> partition, which can be wiped and used for other things without 
> damaging my system, has been a life-saver.)
>
Thanks David, I will give that a shot.  I just assumed that it was HFS. 
 I also have an OS9 partition on the drive, should it be HFS+ also?  I'm 
actually more of a stranger to Mac stuff than Linux, so would I be 
better off just creating a plain ol' HFS partition like you mentioned?

Just a message from Doug...