On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 12:57:35PM -0700, Matt Brubeck wrote: > 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. MacOSX supports UFS HFS and HFS+. nothing else. > > - 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. its probably better since the BSDs use UFS anyway. > > - can NetBSD use an ext2fs partition as / ? > > I don't know. i would doubt it... > Do you really need to mount your NetBSD root partition under Linux, or can > you get by with other ext2 partitions instead? i would make /home ext2 and mount that under netbsd, thier ext2 support should be good. > > - 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. this has been something i have yet to get around to doing... i was going to look at this but OpenBSD barfed when it saw this scsi card in my blue g3. > 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). can someone send me more info on exactly how the netbsd bootstrap partition is setup? do they still require that the disk use msdos partition tables? it would be quite easy for me to add a netbsd= option to the ybin boot menu, i just need more info on what file i need to execute. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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