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Re: How to transfer bucketloads of IIGS stuff
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In article <3A0F9401.1267DB40@students.wisc.edu>,
Nobody youknow <mrjanz@students.wisc.edu> wrote:
>Simon Biber wrote:
>> So does Linux support the Mac-style partition table as well as the PC-style
>> one? I assume the Apple IIs use the Mac-style.
>
>Yep, if you compile it in to the kernel. I doubt any distributions come with it
>already in, but I suppose it's possible. Not sure what partition table style
>the IIs use, though. Perhaps partion the drive on a Mac, then use on the Apple
>II?
I'm 99% sure the II uses the same partition-table format as a Mac (assuming
that you're using an Apple SCSI card or a RamFAST...CMS SCSI cards put no
partition table on the disk and used a ton of jumpers on the card to
determine partitioning instead). I've never tried hooking my GS's hard
drive into my Linux box to see if it'd pick up anything, though...only time
it's seen a Mac-style partition table was when I upgraded my TiVo.
I picked up a Quadra 610 (my first Mac :-) ) dirt-cheap yesterday on
eBay...I suppose I could try hooking the drive into it and see what it sees.
(There are a couple of HFS partitions on the drive, but not much is in
them...nearly all of my stuff is in ProDOS partitions, which Linux doesn't
grok. I understand older versions of MacOS (7.x?) had support for ProDOS
filesystems, though, but that's beyond the scope of this newsgroup. I'm
thinking of maybe using it as a bridge between my GS and my LAN, as it has
AppleTalk to talk to the GS and Ethernet to talk to the LAN...don't know yet
if that is best done under MacOS or Linux-m68k, but (again) that's probably
beyond the scope of this newsgroup.
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