Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] HFS compatible CDs
From: Andrew Solmssen (solmssen@ca.metsci.com)
Date: Wed Dec 17 1997 - 14:12:24 EST
Why are you guys killing yourselves to do this? A copy of Toast for the
mac is < $100, and CD burners are SCSI. Just unhook it and move it to the
Mac, mount the linux box and copy the files over.
---- Andrew
On Wed, 17 Dec 1997, a sun wrote:
>
> Hang on though - couldn't you use the afpfs module to reimport the
> netatalk shared directory into the linux box, and use that to make an hfs
> filesystem, which could then be burned onto the CD?
>
> directory_with_.Appledoubles--->netatalk--->afpfs--->hfs--->CD
>
>
> well, you might want to check out
> <http://www.ps.ucl.ac.uk/~jcpearso/mkhfs.html>. it almost does what's
> wanted. the only thing that's needed is modifications to the code to
> understand netatalk's appledouble layout. i suppose the above scenario
> is one possible solution to achieving that, but it shouldn't be hard
> to modify mkhfs to understand netatalk's format as well.
>
> -a
>
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