Re: guide to setting up netatalk on Ubuntu, with Apple II netboot

[Ivan X <ivanxqz@yahoo.com>]

On 9/14/10 7:49 AM, in article
F46dnQdKUKPe_BLRnZ2dnUVZ_i2dnZ2d@giganews.com, "Steven Hirsch"
<snhirsch@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 09/14/2010 12:49 AM, Hugh Hood wrote:
> 
>> BTW, since you've got a Mac running a pre-10.6 OS (i.e.-AppleTalk still
>> present in the kernel, but not available for use by the Mac's native
>> AppleFileServer / AFP over TCP/IP only) maybe you could try something at
>> which I failed:
>> 
>> I cheated and used MacPorts to build and install Netatalk, but since that
>> patched/configured source refused to allow compiling 'atalkd', I was dead in
>> the water as far as serving files to an Apple II. I never took it further
>> than that, unfortunately.
> 
> Likely due to lack of kernel-level support for ddp (appletalk transport
> layer).  You may well have better luck on an earlier version of OS X.

What Steven said. I too had that idea. While it should theoretically be
possible, I tried it some time ago, and netatalk couldn't make use of
whatever AppleTalk facilities Mac OS X had. It would probably require
modifications to netatalk which are beyond my ability; without really
knowing, I'm guessing Linux makes its AppleTalk protocol available in a
particular way and that's what netatalk is looking for. It's been a while
since I looked, though, so I might try it again on an older version of OS X.


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