I don't know just when the hfsplus driver first appeared: I "just
assumed" it's not in the Woody kernel coz it's too new and so I just
went for the newest kernel I thought would be easy, without going to
backports.
I used it somewhere around 2.4.20, don't remember exactly which one
(2.4.23?) so 2.4.19 might be good enough...
Anyway, the time for talking is past and I'll be attaching it to my
Powerbook later today, and after that the drive will be reformatted
for Linux.
come on, there's no need for such give-up attitude! :-)