Re: No HFS driver, and "change install priority" menu option missing -- and other bugs found while testing 2.4 boot floppies on OldWorld PowerMac
On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, Rick Thomas wrote:
> 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.
In emergency, you can always use `tar cvf /dev/fd0 ...'.
Who needs a file system, if he has tar? ;-)
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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