[gentoo-user] mount mac disks?

[gentoo-user] mount mac disks?

[Mark Knecht]

Good afternoon,
   Not a topic I see come up a lot. I finally bought my first Mac - a
Mac Mini - and I'm fiddling around with external 1394 drives. If I use
MSDOS as  a file system for the drive then I have no trouble mounting
the drive on any of my systems, but it made me wonder if I can format
the drive using an Apple native partition type and mount that under
Gentoo?

   Is it possible?

   I had been assuming that since OS X is based on BSD Linux that it
would be happy mounting ext3 drives but it doesn't mount them at all,
at least using their default tools that recognized a 1394 drive when
it's plugged in.

   Thanks in advance for info in this area. I've never used a Mac and
bought this one on a whim after selling my x86 laptop. Not sure if I'm
going to continue running OS X on it or whether I might try Gentoo.

Cheers,
Mark

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[gentoo-user] Re: mount mac disks?

[Mark Knecht]

I found HFS & HFSPLUS file system support in the kernel so I'm
building that now.

There are also hfsutils and hfsplusutils but the later seems to be
masked in a way that I don't know how to get around:

lightning linux # emerge -pv hfsutils hfsplusutils

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies -
!!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "hfsplusutils" have been masked.
!!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request:
- sys-fs/hfsplusutils-1.0.4 (masked by: missing keyword)
- sys-fs/hfsplusutils-1.0.4-r1 (masked by: missing keyword)

For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or
section 2.2 "Software Availability" in the Gentoo Handbook.

lightning linux # emerge -pv hfsutils

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild  N    ] sys-fs/hfsutils-3.2.6-r4  +tcltk 202 kB

Total size of downloads: 202 kB
lightning linux #

Thanks,
Mark

On 10/15/05, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
> Good afternoon,
>    Not a topic I see come up a lot. I finally bought my first Mac - a
> Mac Mini - and I'm fiddling around with external 1394 drives. If I use
> MSDOS as  a file system for the drive then I have no trouble mounting
> the drive on any of my systems, but it made me wonder if I can format
> the drive using an Apple native partition type and mount that under
> Gentoo?
>
>    Is it possible?
>
>    I had been assuming that since OS X is based on BSD Linux that it
> would be happy mounting ext3 drives but it doesn't mount them at all,
> at least using their default tools that recognized a 1394 drive when
> it's plugged in.
>
>    Thanks in advance for info in this area. I've never used a Mac and
> bought this one on a whim after selling my x86 laptop. Not sure if I'm
> going to continue running OS X on it or whether I might try Gentoo.
>
> Cheers,
> Mark
>
>

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mount mac disks?

[Michael Crute]

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On 10/15/05, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I found HFS & HFSPLUS file system support in the kernel so I'm
> building that now.


Actually OS X disks are formated HFS+ so no need to build HFS support.

There are also hfsutils and hfsplusutils but the later seems to be
> masked in a way that I don't know how to get around:


Hack the ebuild :-) (and submit the patch).

lightning linux # emerge -pv hfsutils hfsplusutils
>
> These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
>
> Calculating dependencies -
> !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "hfsplusutils" have been masked.
> !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your
> request:
> - sys-fs/hfsplusutils-1.0.4 (masked by: missing keyword)
> - sys-fs/hfsplusutils-1.0.4-r1 (masked by: missing keyword)
>
> For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page
> or
> section 2.2 "Software Availability" in the Gentoo Handbook.
>
>
>


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Re: [gentoo-user] mount mac disks?

[Mark Shields]

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I imagine millions of fanboys of Mac OSX must be crying out to hear you call
it "BSD Linux". It's based on BSD. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSX

On 10/15/05, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Good afternoon,
> Not a topic I see come up a lot. I finally bought my first Mac - a
> Mac Mini - and I'm fiddling around with external 1394 drives. If I use
> MSDOS as a file system for the drive then I have no trouble mounting
> the drive on any of my systems, but it made me wonder if I can format
> the drive using an Apple native partition type and mount that under
> Gentoo?
>
> Is it possible?
>
> I had been assuming that since OS X is based on BSD Linux that it
> would be happy mounting ext3 drives but it doesn't mount them at all,
> at least using their default tools that recognized a 1394 drive when
> it's plugged in.
>
> Thanks in advance for info in this area. I've never used a Mac and
> bought this one on a whim after selling my x86 laptop. Not sure if I'm
> going to continue running OS X on it or whether I might try Gentoo.
>
> Cheers,
> Mark
>
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> gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
>
>


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Re: [gentoo-user] mount mac disks?

[Mark Knecht]

On 10/21/05, Mark Shields <laebshade@gmail.com> wrote:
> I imagine millions of fanboys of Mac OSX must be crying out to hear you call
> it "BSD Linux".  It's based on BSD.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSX
>
>
<hehe!!> ;-)

OK, I broke into a sweat, dropped a couple of pounds, grabbed some rosary beads.

Promise never to do that again.

Sorry to the gods and dieties that rule this stuff. Really. Please be
kind with the lightning bolts! ;-)

- Mark

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Re: [gentoo-user] mount mac disks?

[Mark Shields]

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Heh. I'm not really concerned that you called it BSD Linux, although
technically it is wrong, since those are 2 different things.

On 10/21/05, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/21/05, Mark Shields <laebshade@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I imagine millions of fanboys of Mac OSX must be crying out to hear you
> call
> > it "BSD Linux". It's based on BSD.
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSX
> >
> >
> <hehe!!> ;-)
>
> OK, I broke into a sweat, dropped a couple of pounds, grabbed some rosary
> beads.
>
> Promise never to do that again.
>
> Sorry to the gods and dieties that rule this stuff. Really. Please be
> kind with the lightning bolts! ;-)
>
> - Mark
>
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> gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
>
>


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