Subject: Re: Mounting MacOS volumes?
To: Christopher P. Gill <cpg@scs.howard.edu>
From: David A. Gatwood <dgatwood@deepspace.mklinux.org>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 01/17/2000 14:11:48
On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Christopher P. Gill wrote:

> On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Kadari Mayson wrote:
> 
> > How would I mount BSD volumes on the Mac?  Someone told me about BSDJelly or
> > something, but I think he was joking.  MountX won't work, will it?
> 
> Well, depending on how you asked the question, the BSDJelly remark might
> really have been an attempt at humour w.r.t. mounting of a different
> kind  :-)  I've never heard of BSDJelly, and I don't get the impression
> that I ever will.

Never heard of BSDJelly.  MountX won't work, since it's ext2fs only, but
it's open source, so it could be adapted to do BSD fs mounting if someone
wanted to do so.

Of course, for small copies and stuff, the installer usually does a decent
job, as long as it's an older BSD filesystem.


David