From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 21:07:26 -0800 From: Ethan Benson To: Michel Lanners Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org, clausen@gnu.org, parted@gnu.org Subject: Re: GNU Parted, linuxppc support coming :-) Message-ID: <20000707210726.C7162@plato.local.lan> References: <20000705130158.A18557@drow.them.org> <200007060537.HAA01020@piglet.grunz.lu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="mJozIRmlDRkE95ph" In-Reply-To: <200007060537.HAA01020@piglet.grunz.lu>; from mlan@cpu.lu on Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 07:37:34AM +0200 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: --mJozIRmlDRkE95ph Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 07:37:34AM +0200, Michel Lanners wrote: >=20 > Hi all, >=20 > >> Excuse my ignorance... what FS's do people usually use with MacOS? > >> HFS/HFS+? >=20 > Something wanted to add to a previous mail in the thread: >=20 > Don't forget that there are lots of Macs that _absolutely_ need at least > one HFS partition and an Aple partition map on one of there disks, > because that's the only thing the ROM can boot some OS from. >=20 > AFAICT, all pre-NewWorld machines are in this case, except maybe some > that can be tweaked to network boot... oldworld macs this is true i think. newworld macs CAN boot from a disk with DOS partition tables, but you have to configure OpenFirmware to non-standard settings. with a small Apple_Bootstrap partition in HFS format setup by ybin will boot with defaults. --=20 Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ --mJozIRmlDRkE95ph Content-Type: application/pgp-signature --mJozIRmlDRkE95ph-- ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/