[ILUG] Cross Platform CD ROM analysis tool

[Niall O Broin]

On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 04:28:53PM +0000, Gary McCloskey wrote:

> Because of the peculiarities of the Mac FS and the way CDs are mounted on 
> the desktop - no to your first and second questions. None of the Mac FS 
> tools for Linux that I know of can do this.

This is incorrect. As I mentioned earlier the kernel's HFS module allows you
to mount Macintosh HFS CDs and AFAIR the standalone HFS tools do too.

> A kludge is to put the CD into a Mac, and using the appletalk tools package, 
> remotely mount the CD to your linux box. YMMV.

What appletalk tools package are you talking about ? If you're referring to
netatalk that allows a Linux box to act as a file server for Mac. clients -
it doesn't make an Appleshare client out of a Linux box.


Kindest regards,



Niall