Mounting a Mac drive

[Justin Bennett]

Yeah I've done many a redhat kernels. I'd assume it's pretty much the
same, as your compiling from source. 
running Redhat 2.4.18-5 It appears that Apple Mac FS support is compiled
as a module. (just from default settings in menuconfig).


On Wed, 2002-07-10 at 15:47, Gregory J. Neumann wrote:
> 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.
> > 
> 
> 
> 
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