Re: No HFS driver, and "change install priority" menu option missing -- and other bugs found while testing 2.4 boot floppies on OldWorld PowerMac

[Rick Thomas <rbthomas55@pobox.com>]

On Thursday, September 23, 2004, at 06:13 PM, Sven Luther wrote:

> I wrote:
> > I understand the size constraints.  But isn't that the reason why
> > we added the "root-2" floppy?  Would adding hfs and/or hfsplus kick
> > us over the edge into "root-3" land?
>
> We could indeed add it to root-2, but i would prefer to get the 
> floppy loading
> work correctly before i do this rather cosmetic thing working. And 
> hfs/hfsplus
> without ide/scsi driver is not really all that usefull, isn't it.

Actually, it's quite useful -- for writing to mac-formatted (HFS) 
floppy disks... as in for saving the log files for later debugging 
when all else has failed.

Enjoy!

Rick