Hello Many thanks. I will give a go on hfsplus.
Eduardo On Thursday 02 October 2003 10:27 am, John Haywood wrote: > On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 12:02 pm, John Haywood wrote: > > On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 05:41 pm, Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes wrote: > > > Hello > > > > > > On searching the web I came across afpfs that allows me to mount hfs > > > volumes. Unfortunately afpfs is too old and cannot be compiled at > > > 9.2rc1. Does someone out there has a solution on how to mount hfs > > > volumes remotely? > > > > > > Many thanks > > > > > > Eduardo > > > > Eduardo, if you search in the �Mandrake 9.x� and �Mandrake other� areas > > on pbone: > > > > http://rpm.pbone.net/ > > > > there will be a couple of 2.4.22 kernels in contrib and cooker which have > > the hfsplus module built in. Thereafter, you should be able to specify a > > filesystem type in a regular mount command. > > > > Alternately, there are packages/source at ftp.penguinppc.org/users/hasi, > > called hfsplusutils, which support read-only access, and looks pretty > > promising (that said, I�d be reading the doco to check before entrusting > > critical data ....) > > (replying to own post here -- first signs of geek-senility...) > > OK, I�ve installed hfsplusutils-1.0.4-4.i386.rpm (src.rpm wouldn�t rebuild > on my system, didn�t want to muck around), and .... > > ...it works!! > > took a Mac OSX-partitioned firewire drive, plugged it in to Linux i386 box, > checked dmesg to find device (/dev/sda), and > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] john]$ hpmount -r -p3 /dev/sda (read-only, partition 3) > > then > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] john]$ hpls > > Apps > ATOG Macintosh HD_asr.dmg > Backup_bootie.sparseimage > BBEdit User Manual (HTML) > BBEditUserManual_HTML.sit.bin > Build additions > Carbon Copy Cloner > Citrix ICA Client > client_50540.sit > > etc... > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] john]$ hpcopy -r Picture\ 1.pdf /home/john/ (raw data copy) > > gives a readable pdf > > Finally [EMAIL PROTECTED] john]$ hpumount > > Now, I guess I�d like it to mount somewhere tangible, rather than virtual, > but all in all, I�m impressed. It mounted the first partition (which is > MacOSX Server), the second (MacOSX Client), and the third (MacOSX data > drive) flawlessly. Even if the documentation is a bit nonexistent, it�s > certainly quicker than ftp...
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