On September 23, 2005 10:38 am, Gilles Detillieux wrote this amazing epistle:
Mike Pfaiffer wrote:
How?
I'm able to do Linux and M$ partitions successfully on my PC with Fedora 2. I want to see how to do it so I can write an article on it. I'll admit to only a one hour google search today (I was so happy to get ANYTHING working I had to test it as soon as I could). I found a lot of pages referring to Linux on the Mac and a bunch of pages saying they were out of date with the 2.4 kernel. I *should* be able to test the Mac/HFS partition this weekend.
The odd thing is if I had the USB card for my Apple// I could format it there... Unfortunately I've already blown a bunch of money on the new harddrive (on sale at Itech) and USB box.
Later Mike
What I could glean from a quick couple Google searches was that you need to get and build the diskdev_cmds package from Darwin, using a patch to make it compile on Linux (there seems to be some of these floating around on the web). Then you use the newfs or newfs_hfs program from that package.
Thanks. I'll grab the package this afternoon. It turns out a couple of Mac people may benefit from this as well (they are newbies and want me to format harddrives on my machine for them - one couldn't get a 200GB drive working properly). Later Mike -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Call-A.P.P.L.E. and the Digital Civilization http://www.callapple.org | | http://members.shaw.ca/pfaiffer = Mike Pfaiffer (B.A., B.Sc.) | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ ----- BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK ----- Version: 3.12 GCS/G/IT/PA/SS d s+:- a? C++ UL L++ W++ N++ o+ K- w(---) O+@ M++@ V PS+ PE !PGP t+ 5+ X R tv b+ DI+++ D++ G e++* h! r-- !y-- UF++ ------ END GEEK CODE BLOCK ------