Semi newbie question - expanded

[Olaf Olson]

I just discovered something, that I am sure is known by many, but none 
has responded, yet, to this post. If MOL is running, you can't write to 
its boot drive. I'm guessing that this is another reason that David has 
another partition, but as I have only one, I can't tell if this is true 
or nt. In any even, if I stop MOL, I can write files to the Mac OSX 
partitioned drive. Once MOL is running, it's read-only.

Hope that helps, GDB-B&W-YDL3.0.1, aka.  Doug.

Now... can someone tell me why I can't see my Samba share, from MOL? 
It's perfectly visible from all the other Macs, PCs, and YDL machines in 
the place, except the one that is both the Samba server and teh MOL host.


Thanks

Olaf


GDB-B&W-YDL3.0.1 wrote:

> David Chart wrote:
>
>> GDB-B&W-YDL3.0.1 wrote:
>>
>>> 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?
>>
>>
>>
>> Probably. That's the default option, so if you didn't deliberately 
>> change it, it will be.
>>
>> Just a warning: if you have OSX 10.3 or higher, the OSX partition is 
>> probably journalled. The Linux support for that is, apparently, still 
>> experimental, and the recommendation, last I heard, was not to write 
>> to such disks from Linux. You might be better off working through the 
>> OS 9 partition, which shouldn't be journalled (since OS 9 can't do it).
>>
>>>  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?
>>>
>>
>> Not if you're more comfortable in Linux. I did it that way because it 
>> was easier for me to make the fixes on the Mac side; if you're more 
>> comfortable in Linux it's probably easier to set up HFS+ reading.
>>
> Yep, read the How-To and it's now mounted properly.  Of course the 
> same as Olaf, I can't write to the drive.  I've had problems for years 
> trying to figure out permissions in Linux.  Sometimes I get lucky and 
> they work, sometimes not...
>
> Doug
>
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