Semi newbie question Read-Only

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Clinton MacDonald wrote:

> Mr. Olson:
>
> Olaf Olson wrote:
>
>> No insult intended. Mother just told me to be polite when
>> addressing one's betters/
>
>
> No insult taken. And I am *not* your better! We are all Yellowdog 
> Generals here. :-)
>
>> What does this mean:
>>
>> *Very* important: do not try to mount the partition between
>> Yellow Dog Linux and Mac-on-Linux at the same time!
>
>
> Here is what I meant:
>
> One of the very, very cool features of Yellow Dog Linux is that it has 
> in it Mac-on-Linux (MOL). MOL is exactly what it sound like: you can 
> boot up the Macintosh OS (either Mac OS 9 or Mac OS X) while running 
> Yellow Dog Linux. MOL can be booted either within an X window (for 
> instance, within KDE), or in a separate console (where it appears as 
> if you are running Mac OS all by itself). You can switch back and 
> forth between the two environments (although you cannot copy or paste 
> information between them directly). Like I said, very cool!
>
> If you have MOL running, it will mount (as readable and writable) its 
> own boot partition, and any other Mac HFS or HFS+ partitions it sees. 
> If you switch back to the Linux environment, you must be sure not to 
> try to mount any of those partitions that are being used by the MOL 
> environment. If you do manage to mount, say, the MOL boot partition 
> and write data to it, you will likely hose the partition, or at least 
> crash the MOL environment.
>
> Don't do that!
>
> Best wishes,
> Clint
> (who is the very model of a modern Yellowdog General)
>
Okay, this MOL thing is very new to me.  I only got YDL installed this 
afternoon.  Is this something easy to do?  Is there a FAQ on it somewhere?

Just a message from Doug...