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Re: reading linux from MacOs



On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 08:06:44PM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> > > BenH had written a system extension to read ext2 filesystems. Look for
> > > MountX. I'd not bet on it working with system 9.x and above though.
> >
> > i tried that once, all it did was crash on powerpc.  it only worked on
> > my m68k powerbook.
> 
> Worked for me (system 8.6, Lombard). I've never tried writing to the ext2
> partitions (now why would anyone want to do _that_?). Plus I rarely use
> MacOS except for two legacy applications...

it was a read-only implementation.

the scary thing was the TODO had write support with the `droppings'
support too (all that cruft you end up with on a DOS disk, that you
see on all non-macos machines, thats `droppings' support).

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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