Mounting a Mac drive

[Gregory J. Neumann]

I've been able to mount Mac format CD's in Linux, but I needed to 
have HFS support compiled into the kernel to get it to work. IIRC, one 
can only mount HFS "read only".  Regardless, I was able to copy the 
files to the Samba share and have them available to the Windo$e 
users on the network.  Hope this helps.  
You may want to  compile a custom kernel, set it up as a boot option 
in lilo.conf or in grub, and then give it a shot.  I'm not sure what the 
various distros do for this.  Slackware lets you specify it during the 
initial setup, but I don't recall how Mandrake or RedHat handle that.  
You can always "cd /usr/src/linux" and "make menuconfig" and poke 
around.  Then just don't save any changes! ;-)

Change of topic:  I've noticed some mention of kernel changes here 
under Mandrake.  Has anybody just custom compiled and/or patched 
another kernel?  I do it frequently when I may need some new feature, 
then test it, and either use it if it works, or try again.  It's not unusual 
for me to have 3 kernels in my lilo boot menu.  Maybe we should do a 
discussion/presentation at a meeting.

-Greg Neumann

> Has anyone had success mounting a Mac hard-drive under Linux?  If so, what 
> type did you use?
> We've had a Mac G4 fail, and I want to know if it's possible to extract the 
> data from it using my Linux box.  I haven't found any how-to's relating to 
> this subject.
> Thanks,
> Jonathan.
>