A few things - no-write MacOSX disk

[Olaf Olson]

Steve,

Maybe I can answer the writable/not-writable MacOSX issue. If that is 
the MacOSX boot volume and you have MOL running, this would explain it. 
You can't (at least I can't) write to the MacOSX boot volume while MOL 
is running and accessing it. I think there are several posts here about 
that, under the heading "mounting a Mac partition".

Have a look at those.

Olaf

Steve Roy wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I posted this on the yellowdog-newbie mailing list but didn't get any 
> reaction so maybe those questions are better for this list instead. :)
>
> I installed YDL about two weeks ago and had never tried Linux before, 
> so I think I'm a newbie. However, with the amount of things I had to 
> do to get MOL running—long story—I've discovered quite a bit. So let's 
> see. Things are running alright in general with YDL but there are a 
> few little things. I was initially going to wait for YDL 4.0, but 
> since I had time now and the need to, I decided to go ahead and start 
> playing with the current 3.0.1 release, and I've upgraded to the 
> 2.4.22-2g kernel.
>
> - The mounted Mac OS X volume is non-writable. I can read stuff from 
> it, but not write to it, but this is intermitten. I boot and it works. 
> I boot another time and it doesn't work. It seems today random and I 
> haven't figured out what drives this lottery. Is this a known issue?
>
> - I can't add or move things on the desktop. Again, this is 
> intermittent like the problem above, so this might be related to the 
> same underlying issue. I checked the permissions on the Desktop 
> directory and they look OK. It works fine on a given boot, and doesn't 
> on another boot. How do I fix this doc?
>
> - I installed Thunderbird using yum but it's version 0.6. I tried 
> installing the latest 0.7.3 that I downloaded from mozilla.org but 
> when I try to run it I get an error saying thunderbird-bin can't be 
> executed. How can I get the latest Thunderbird running? Or is there an 
> RPM of the 0.7.3 release available somewhere?
>
> - How can I make icons for things like Thunderbird or MOL in my task 
> bar? I looked at the properties of some of the existing icons I have 
> now and it seems like it's just a matter of assigning the command line 
> to execute and give it an icon, but how do I create one of these icon 
> thingies? Where is that in the Add menu?
>
> - Font anti-aliasing is turned on, or so it says, but it doesn't seem 
> to work. It's visible especially in Firefox when I surf the web that 
> fonts are all jagged. Other apps also have the same problem. However 
> anti-aliasing works in Thunderbird, go figure. Is there something I'm 
> missing? Do I have to active it for specific applications? Or maybe 
> certain fonts don't support anti-aliasing? (I'm grasping at straws 
> here, as you can tell...) Just to be sure, the variable width font I 
> have selected in Firefox is adobe-times.
>
> - I enabled the trackpad by editing /etc/sysconfig/trackpad to set 
> TRACKPAD_OPT to "drag", and this is another thing that is working 
> intermittently. How does this lottery work doc? Anybody else see this?
>
> - I turned on automatic login but it doesn't work. I did this in 
> Control Center --> System Administration --> Login Manager --> 
> Convenience. The "Enable auto-login" box is checked, my user account 
> is selected. What else is there that I need to do?
>
> - Is there a way we can change the "flower" login screen? :)
>
> - I'm looking for a way to make screen shots. With Google I found that 
> I can use the 'import' command, which works, but since I have to type 
> it in a terminal, this means the window(s) I actually want to take a 
> screen shot of are in the background. How do I get around that. I see 
> that I can use the -window option, but how I do I specify the window I 
> want? Another thing that might help would be a delay before the shot 
> is taken, but I don't see any such option. Or maybe there is another 
> utility that can take screen shots?
>
> Thanks for any hints you may have.
>