[B2-devel] Solved: Correction: Problems mounting MacOS disks under Linux, for SheepShaver

[Andrew L. <and...@in...>]

Hi all,

Good news.  SheepShaver is up and running MacOS 8.5 under Mandriva linux, KDE 
3.5.4, Core2 Duo processor.

What did I change ?

As I indicated in my earlier emails to the group, I was *unable* to mount the 
MacOS 8.5 disk on my linux system using the following command
   mount -t hfs /dev/hda /mnt/cdrom

I took a shot at something different . . . . I used the hmount command to 
mount it.
  hmount /dev/hda

I hadn't considered doing this previously, since while I had found that while 
it mounted the disk 'locally'  (the hmount manual says . . . . "hmount  does  
not actually mount an HFS partition over a UNIX directory in the traditional 
mount(8) sense. It is merely a "virtual" mount, as a point  of convenience 
for future HFS operations"), this meant that I couldn't access those files 
other than from command line.

Anyway, to cut a long story short, once the CD had been mounted as described 
above, then SheepShaver started, formating of the hard file and installation 
of MacOS 8.5 became rather straight forward.

Hope this helps.

Andrew