bypassing MacOS using Open Firmware on Apple pmac G3

[Takashi Oe]

On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Ethan Benson wrote:

[...]
> using HFS is not an option IMO because it must be created on macos, 
> unless someone wants to write a mkfs.hfs, didn't think so.  no thanks 
> I'll stick with a DOS partition that I can take care of in a total 
> Free environment rather then keeping macos around just to maintain 
> the bootloader.  (which is just as bad as using Bootx

You can use hformat from hfsutils to creat a HFS partition.  It works just
fine.


Takashi Oe


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