Re: GNU/Linux, NetBSD and Mac OS X
Hi. I can't answer all of your questions, but here's a start. Good luck!
On Tue, 22 May 2001, Edouard G. Parmelan wrote:
> - which NetBSD and/or GNU/Linux filesystems Mac OS X support ?
I don't know.
> - can NetBSD and/or GNU/Linux access to Mac OS X filesystem ?
Yes. Currently the best way to do this is with hfsplusutils. These work on
both Linux and NetBSD (there are Debian packages available). These are
userland tools rather than native kernel support, but they do work.
MacOSX UFS is supported read-only by the Linux kernel. I don't know the
state of support under NetBSD.
> - can NetBSD use an ext2fs partition as / ?
I don't know.
Do you really need to mount your NetBSD root partition under Linux, or can
you get by with other ext2 partitions instead?
> - can GNU/Linux access to NetBSD FFS partition ?
Yes.
> - GNU/Linux seem to need/require yaboot. Can yaboot start NetBSD ?
No.
It appears that the NetBSD bootstrap system is very similar to that
used by yaboot/ybin, so it may not be difficult to make ybin work with the
NetBSD bootloader as well.
Currently however it seems you will need to go through Open Firmware in
order to switch operating systems. This is not too troublesome on recent
hardware. Oh, you should also try holding down Option while booting, to
see if the iBook has the built-in multiboot chooser like some iMacs and
G4s, and whether it will boot NetBSD (it works for yaboot and MacOS X).
> - I have read that there is a Darwing version of BootX (that use Open
> Firmare). Can this version start NetBSD, GNU/Linux and Mac OS X ?
No, it currently cannot boot NetBSD or GNU/Linux.
> [Debian]: Should I use Potato r3 or Woody ? If the answer is woody, is
> there CD images somewhere ?
Use potato for the initial install (as the install disks for woody are not
yet ready), and then upgrade to woody.
Go to <http://cdimage.debian.org/>.
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