Re: ProDOS driver for linux...?

[salfter@salfter.diespammersdie.dyndns.org (Scott Alfter)]

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In article <1125791148.460191.50700@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
josephoswaldgg@hotmail.com <josephoswald@gmail.com> wrote:
>Good point; I have to plead complete ignorance on how ProDOS/GSOS
>created partition tables, and whether they are at all comprehended by
>Linux.

The Apple II inherited its partition-table format from the Mac.  The only
difference is that Apple II disk-partitioning utilities typically don't
create a driver partition; disks partitioned on a II won't be bootable on a
Mac, even if an HFS partition with all of the system files is on it.

Mac-style partition tables are supported in Linux.  They should be enabled by
default on a PowerPC Linux distro, while you'll most likely need to enable
it separately (File systems -> Partition Types -> Advanced partition
selection -> Macintosh partition map support) for x86, AMD64, and other
architectures.

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