For what it's worth, here is what I sent Lance, one of the CIS techs working on this problem for Dr. Howe. If I goofed on anything, lemme know.
Rog ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Roger E. Rustad, Jr. <[email protected]> Date: Jan 26, 2007 10:31 AM Subject: resurrecting Dr. Howe's Mac hdd To: [email protected] Cc: Vernon Howe <[email protected]>, [email protected], [email protected], David Kaiser <[email protected]> Hi Lance, Not sure if you remember me or not, but I'd often come in and give grief to both Jarrad and Brian. I sometimes help Johnny Thomas with various technology related things (much to the chagrin of CIS sometimes :). Dr. Howe told Gary (who told me) that his Mac crashed. One thing that's helped me in the past is Knoppix (e.g. how I quickly recov'd the mail DB files from a dead Exchange servers - http://tinyurl.com/33hmpa). From what I've heard, it mounts HFS+ fairly easily (similar to how you'd mount an iPod in Linux, I assume) e.g. mount -t hfsplus /dev/sda3 /mnt/ipod Since Dr. Howe's stuff is extremely important, one might use a read-only mount instead e.g. mount -t hfsplus -o ro /dev/sda3 /mnt/howeHDD I just got a Mac about a month ago, so I'm completely sure how everything works. But I believe that the process (once you booted to a live CD with tools) would be to put in the rescue disk and hold down "C" key. Once there, you should be able to use *nix's mount command to safely grab the contents of the drive (assuming that it isn't physically damaged). If you have any questions, you're welcome to shoot an email to me, David Kaiser ([email protected], also cc:'d), and/or send an email to the listserv at 909Linux.org (of which Brian Friday is a part also). While I don't know him personally, I'm sure that Aaron Lopez (also in our 909Linux group, cc:'d) might also be of service. If you have any problems, pipe the dmesg output to a file and send it to us. One of us can hopefully point you to some tools that might help. And for what it's worth, here is quite a bit of info on HFS+ on Gentoo's wiki site. http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_hfsplus . I haven't used Gentoo for about a year, but I assume that the tools are similar. Later dude, Rog 951 317 7489 cell P.S. You going to the SCaLE Linux conference this year? On 1/25/07, Aaron P. Lopez <[email protected]> wrote:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Last week I used a ubuntu for ppc install disk as a rescue disk. it had enough tools on there to mount the hfsplus mac os x filesystem and copy the contents over to a usb drive. for the mac, turn it on eject any existing cd in there with the double '^' like button, put rescue cd in and hold down the 'c' key, it should then boot off your rescue disk. i can make the iso available to you if you want it. of course, if the drive is totally toasted a rescue disk won't help...that's where it can get expensive. :( Note: i burned the iso in linux on i386 and there were no problems. i also tried the knoppix "knoppix-MiB-PPC-alpha-2e.iso" but, that mac refused to boot off it. Aaron Joel Brauer wrote: > diskwarrior http://www.allsoft.com/DiskWarrior/ is a very good drive fix > it product for the mac, but I haven't used it in over 5 years. So I > can't speak to its current state. > > Joel Brauer > Manager IS > Communications and Web Technologies > Loma Linda University > pager: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > > > On Jan 24, 2007, at 8:12 PM, Roger E. Rustad, Jr. wrote: > >> On 1/24/07, Chris Louden <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> http://www.ontrack.com >> >> Yeah, I've seen that one (and actually have a copy of it for Windows) >> >> I'm googling for Mac-friendly versions and see that pre OS X versions >> are different than post OS X. >> _______________________________________________ >> 909linux mailing list >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> http://909linux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/909linux > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > 909linux mailing list > [email protected] > http://909linux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/909linux -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFuPQbCYohiBpGwOURAlVMAJ4nhLblvrd2YCMc3Okop79c3OmbJQCbB176 q8mMWfjmXUsAdy00z3vyo2k= =h6Gy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 909linux mailing list [email protected] http://909linux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/909linux
