On Mon, 26 Jul 1999, Ken Nakata wrote:

> On Sat, 24 Jul 1999 09:01:42 -0400, Allen Briggs <briggs@ninthwonder.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Ever since, say, NetBSD 0.9, I've been wanting to have some way to read
> > files off a MacOS disk and install from within a running NetBSD...
> 
> How hard would it be to implement a *read-only* HFS layer with just
> enough functionality to enable sysinst to read dist set files off of
> local HFS partitions?
> 
> And which volume of IM would I have to be looking at in order to do
> that?  (no, it's not a promise... ;-)

At one time, the File Manager chapter had a subsection entitled "Data
Organization on Volumes". The HFS layout would still be in the File
Manager Volume, no doubt. It might also be instructive to use a disk
editor to view interpreted vs. raw directory sectors and such.