On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 07:37:34AM +0200, Michel Lanners wrote:
Hi all,
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Excuse my ignorance... what FS's do people usually use with MacOS?
HFS/HFS+?
Something wanted to add to a previous mail in the thread:
Don't forget that there are lots of Macs that _absolutely_ need at least
one HFS partition and an Aple partition map on one of there disks,
because that's the only thing the ROM can boot some OS from.
AFAICT, all pre-NewWorld machines are in this case, except maybe some
that can be tweaked to network boot...
oldworld macs this is true i think. newworld macs CAN boot from a
disk with DOS partition tables, but you have to configure OpenFirmware
to non-standard settings. with a small Apple_Bootstrap partition in
HFS format setup by ybin will boot with defaults.
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Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
At 9:07 PM -0800 7/7/00, Ethan Benson wrote:
On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 07:37:34AM +0200, Michel Lanners wrote:
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Hi all,
>> Excuse my ignorance... what FS's do people usually use with MacOS?
>> HFS/HFS+?
Something wanted to add to a previous mail in the thread:
Don't forget that there are lots of Macs that _absolutely_ need at least
one HFS partition and an Aple partition map on one of there disks,
because that's the only thing the ROM can boot some OS from.
AFAICT, all pre-NewWorld machines are in this case, except maybe some
that can be tweaked to network boot...
oldworld macs this is true i think.
Not completely true. They do have to have a Mac partition table but
I'm pretty sure you can get away without any HFS partitions if you
use quik to boot. Granted, that's a pain, but it can be done.
Tim Seufert
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Hi all,
On 8 Jul, this message from Timothy A. Seufert echoed through cyberspace:
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Don't forget that there are lots of Macs that _absolutely_ need at least
one HFS partition and an Aple partition map on one of there disks,
because that's the only thing the ROM can boot some OS from.
AFAICT, all pre-NewWorld machines are in this case, except maybe some
that can be tweaked to network boot...
oldworld macs this is true i think.
Not completely true. They do have to have a Mac partition table but
I'm pretty sure you can get away without any HFS partitions if you
use quik to boot. Granted, that's a pain, but it can be done.
You are right. OF only accesses the boot block of a partition marked
bootable. It probably doesn't know filesystems at all.
Michel
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