machead movin stuff to linux

[Dean Loros]

> I just sent this to Kristo, but I thought that everyone might be 
> interested---I wanted to "just" click my way thru my other drives on 
> my system & so I did a fair amount of Google time & this is what I 
> came up with---

Got the answer for you on this one--I'm a old time MacHead & just moved 
to Linux--Have my Dual 1G Mirror-Door as Dual-boot & I wanted a good 
way to pull the OSX files over to the Linux side---You will need to 
mk(make)dir(directory) whatever you want it to be called--I have six 
partitions on four internal drives, So---mine looked like---

mkdir /mnt/osx
mkdir /mnt/osx3
mkdir /mnt/storage
mkdir /mnt/games
mkdir /mnt/itunes
mkdir /mnt/downloads

then I found what the partition numbers were & edited my /etc/fstab 
file-(used nano--in a terminal as root, type nano -w /etc/fstab--edit 
the file & control-x to save--it will ask you if that is what you 
want)---this is my fstab copy---

/dev/hda4            /                            ext3    defaults      
   1 1
none                    /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  
0 0
none                    /dev/shm              tmpfs   defaults        0 
0
none                    /proc                     proc    defaults      
   0 0
none                    /sys                       sysfs   defaults     
    0 0
none                    /proc/bus/usb      usbfs   defaults        0 0
/dev/hda3            /tmp                      ext3    defaults        
1 2
/dev/hda5            swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
/dev/hda6             /mnt/osx                hfsplus defaults        0 
0
/dev/hdb2             /mnt/osx3               hfsplus defaults        0 
0
/dev/hdb4             /mnt/storage            hfsplus defaults        0 
0
/dev/hdc3              /mnt/itunes             hfsplus defaults        
0 0
/dev/hdd2              /mnt/downloads      hfsplus defaults        0 0
/dev/cdrom            /mnt/cdrom              auto    noauto,user     0 
0
/dev/cdrom1          /mnt/cdrom1             auto    noauto,user     0 0
/dev/cdrom2          /mnt/cdrom2             auto    noauto,user     0 0

note the HD (number)---hda - hdb - and so on--- I used the info from 
the parted program--info for that is available elsewhere--

Reboot & you will get a file in your main directory that is /mnt .  
Inside you will find all the drives you made directories for--you can 
just double-click & browse just like in OSX--I made a tab in the top 
toolbar for easy reach--Hope this helps---AND REMEMBER--DOUBLE-CHECK 
YOUR INFO BEFORE THAT SAVE---Linux "assumes" you REALLY know what you 
want when you do it--I've done 6 installs to get it right---Good way to 
learn???? Drove me mad at first--still have a "issue" with a USB2 
cdrom--sometimes Linux won't "see" it---It's /dev/cdrom2--I'm still 
working on that one------

Happy Journey---

Dean Loros
autocrosser at macdialup.com
performbdesign at macdialup.com