Semi newbie question Read-Only

[David C. Hacker, DVM]

Here are some tips I put together if you have problems with getting MOL  
going.
http://www.sharplabs.com:8668/space/Configuring+YDL/ 
Kernel+Errors+and+Mac+On+Linux

David C. Hacker, DVM
On Sep 4, 2004, at 10:50 PM, GDB-B&W-X.3.5 wrote:

> 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...
>
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