[svlug] sneaker net from Mac to Linux possible?

[Brian Coyle]

Ken Blake wrote:
> 
> My wife is doing some work at a place with Macs.  They have some older
> Macs so I think they'll have some with 3.5" floppy drives.  If so, then will it
> be possible to transfer files between a Mac and a pc running linux on a
> diskette?
> 

I've had success reading and writing to Mac formatted Iomega Zip disks-

        $ mount -t hfs /dev/sdf /zip

Should also work with floppies...

> I seem to recall that Macs had some completely different method of
> reading/writing to floppies.  Even if they've changed their ways and
> decided to conform, I assume they still would have a different file system.

Mac filesystems are type `hfs`.

HTH!


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