Re: Reading files from a diskette from an old MacOS.

[Sjoerd Hiemstra <shiems146@kpnplanet.nl>]

Peter Easthope:
> A friend has data on a diskette written in MacOS around 1995.
> According to this page hfs and hfs+ are supported.  
>   http://wiki.debian.org/FileSystem
> 
> How reliable is this capability?

AFAICS, the only thing you need to do is 'modprobe hfs'.
Or add the line 'hfs' (without the quotes) in /etc/modules to make it
permanent.

Provided that /etc/fstab contains the line
    /dev/fd0   /media/floppy   auto   rw,user,noauto   0  0
all that's needed is 'mount /media/floppy'.

Another option is to install hfsutils and use xhfs to exchange data
with the hfs-formatted floppy. This provides some conversion options,
notably between Mac text files with <CR> line endings and Unix text
files with <LF> line endings. No modules or mounting needed.