[ILUG] Cross Platform CD ROM analysis tool

[Niall O Broin]

On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 03:27:26PM -0000, Eamon Leonard wrote:

> anyone know of a linux app that can read Mac partitions on a cd?

There is a suite of tools which can read various kinds of HFS disks - just
everything except original 800K Mac floppies which PC hardware can't read.
You can also compile HFS support into the kernel - read
/usr/src/linux/fs/hfs/FAQ.txt and any kind of recent distribution will
probably have the hfs module available - this SuSE 7.2 box does. 

I can testify that it works well having copied tens of gigs of JPEGs from
Mac CDs via my Linux box.

> Even better...does anyone know of a linux app that can do a binary analysis
> of mac and iso partitions on a cdrom?

What do you mean exactly ? You could mount the CD as ISO and then as HFS and
look at the data you see in whatever way you like - Perl would by weapon of
choice but let's not start a scripting language war.


Niall