Found the problem. I had formatted both sdb and sdc as macos 'extended' filesystems for more efficient use of disk space under MacOS 8.1. Previous versions of MacOS (<=8.0) can't read this file system--and neither dos linux apparently. Reformatted sdc as macos 'standard' file system and now I'm good to go. Thanks for all the replies. I'm a happy man.
-----Original Message----- From: Matthew Dalton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 19, 1999 11:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Debian User List Subject: Re: "install operating system kernel and modules" problem If linux actually supports the filesystem that MacOS uses properly, there should be no problem creating directories in either OS and have the other OS read it all right. This is how it is with DOS/Linux. Maybe the linux drivers for the MacOS filesystem are not mature (ie buggy)? Roger Weinheimer wrote: > > I thought I'd be clever. Hah! Boot into MacOS. Delete 'debian' directory > from sdc--I still have it on sdb. Run penguin from sdb. Mount sdc1. Mkdir > 'debian' on sdc1. That worked. Reboot into MacOS. Copy contents of > sdb/debian into sdc/debian--which I know I can see in linux. Only problem > is, I can't see 'debian' directory created in linux when booted in MacOS. I > obviously have a lot to learn about file systems. I thought maybe linux > would be able to create the directory such that it is readable in MacOS. Of > course the root of my problem seems to be that MacOS doesn't create a > directory readable in linux. What's a fella to do short of going out and > buying the cd? That would be too easy. ;-) >
