mounting hfs+ partitions in yellowdog, and vice versa

[Richard D. Gill]

PS. The starting point of my questions were the
problems which seem to be caused by accidentally
putting the YDL partition after the Mac partition,
instead of in front.

So I had started all over and now most problems
have gone. However I just noticed (thanks to
pdisk) that I haven't succeeded to get the linux
partitions ahead of the mac partitions, after all! 
I used Mac OSX's Disk Utility and asked for free space,
then a mac hfs, and then a mac hfs+ partition. 
However it has put the free space after the mac
partitions. 

I suppose I should have asked for three mac partitions,
then after they were made, deleted the first one to 
turn it into free space. However this was the route
I took the first time (except with the partitions in
the wrong order, and without an hfs partition) 
and this led to swapon failing.

I guess the conclusion should be that Mac OSX's disk 
utility is not quite good enough for the kind of
fine control on the partitioning which one wants.
I guess OS9's utility is better. A nuisance if you 
don't have OS9...