Re: Problem with intallation on a wierd PC/MAC combo
"Nathan Vegdahl" <nathan_vegdahl@hotmail.com> writes:
> The problem is that both of them share the same hard drive!!! The
> way they share it is by the MAC having over all power over the hard
> drive, and the PC uses allocations of the hard drive (called drive
> files) that appear as files on the MAC side so that the Mac side won't
> mess with the stuff on that PC "hard drive". The PC accesses that
> allocation through some loaded TSR program (I think).
>From my very foggy memory about this stuff, the mac supplies access to the
PC by emulating bios calls. So, the PC calls some bios routine, and MacOS
grabs it and handles it.
Linux has no way of using the BIOS to handle the calls to the disk, AFAIK.
A long time ago (several years ago) someone proposed writing drivers for
Linux that used the BIOS for weird hardware like this, but I don't think it
ever happened.
Sorry for the bad news, but I think you'd really be better off trying to
find out if Linux can run on the Mac itself, or finding a free (or really
really really cheap) PC. They're out there.
Later,
Dale
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