Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Type Manager / CD Writer / Zip Drives?
From: Vivek (vivek@imaginet.co.uk)
Date: Thu Apr 16 1998 - 10:19:35 EDT
On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Matthias Ferdinand wrote:
> Is it possible to write to CDs and ZIP drives in Mac Format
> from a Unix box? I figure that reading them would not be too
> difficult using a HFS driver, but writing? If somebody has any
> hints, I really would like to hear from you - thanks!
Yes: HFS can write to Mac disks: however, resource forks are probably
going to bite you here: I'm not sure there's an easy way to take
netatalk .AppleDouble style forks and munge them into an HFS file system.
However, you should be able to move files between HFS partitions [or
filesystem-images], so burning Mac CDs should be possible...
http://www.ps.ucl.ac.uk/~jcpearso/mkhybrid.html
Might be helpful there. mkhybrid understands AUFS [as used by CAP] but not
the netatalk style forks: I'm not sure how similar the CAP and netatalk
methods for storing the forks are: the description on the above page makes
me think they're pretty similar, but I'm no expert. [I haven't tried out
mkhybrid yet, but it's on my list of things to do]
I don't think you can format Mac HD's on the linux box because AFAIK
there's no way to make a Mac partition table under Linux.
Hope that's all of some use.
-- fsck -f -b 8193 /dev/cortex
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