Thanks very much.  I'll create a small scratch partition for 
my hfsutils writing.

cheers

bruce

Frederick Bruckman <fredb@immanent.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Bruce ONeel wrote:
> 
> > On the powerbook 500 I'm running on here I get the following
> > when I run installer 1.1h
> >
> > After the root scsi id dialog it finds rsd0a etc and then I get
> >
> > /: bad dir ino 2 at offset 0:  mangled entry
> >
> > Then I have the option of exiting.
> >
> > A forced fsck from single user mode seems content though.
> >
> > I build this system with the 1.6 sysinstall kernel.
> 
> Ahh. The Mac OS installer only supports "old style" file systems,
> such as those created by Mkfs, and even then it's horrible and slow.
> 
> For pulling files out of Mac OS, "hfsutils" is excellent. Going the
> other way, it can, however corrupt the file system. It would be safer
> to make a small scratch file system, than to let it operate on the
> bootable partition, and to make it HFS rather than HFS+.
> 
> If you have a network, I find the most efficient and foolproof way to
> transfer files is via a MacOS/68k ftp client, such as Netscape 3.x or
> Anarchie. Anarchie even let's you drag and drop whole folders, so
> there's no need for netatalk unless you want to run programs from
> the network, or share a printer.
> 
> Frederick