On Sun, 2014-10-12 at 07:25 -0500, Dan McGhee wrote: > In the last few days, my home computer situation has changed and I want > to do something I've never even thought about before, much less know how > to do. > > I became so much more disgusted with windows--and HP too--that I bought > an iMac so that I could maintain my other i-devices. That machine is a > joy to use and I've spent a lot of time learning it. > > By the way, although over the years I have very dutifully configured my > kernels to read disks formatted in various and sundry styles, I've never > run into the situation in which I couldn't do anything with a drive > because of how it was formatted. My iMac does not read disks originally > formatted in or for ntfs. It sees the partition table but won't mount > anything. This brings me to my current question. > > I want to ultimately use all my external and salvaged hard drives on > both my (soon to be completely) linux laptop and my iMac. That part is > simple. Back up what I don't want to lose and then reformat those drives. > > The second part is what I need to learn. I want to be able to transfer > files between my laptop and iMac. Apparently there's a couple of ways > to go. One is to setup an ftp client and server on one of the machines > and do it that way. The other is file sharing. I think I'm leaning > towards file sharing because that ability is obvious on the iMac. > > I scanned through the BLFS packages and it wasn't clear to me what I > needed in either case. For file sharing it looks like NFS and its > dependencies. But for ftp it wasn't clear. > > What do I need to build to develop either one or both of these abilities? > > With NFS, is it a matter of just getting on the network and then having > the other computer recognize and access the machine? > > I will be grateful for any advice, directions or comments in these areas. > > Dan
Hello Dan, I am not sure of the exact version of mac os X you are using, but from reading up on it there have been issues in the past of it not auto-mounting ntfs partitions. If you have not already done so, there is a release of ntfs for mac that was released February this year: http://www.tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-download/ It shows how to have it automounted at boot time. I know that the versions of mac os X were originally based on FreeBSD which is unix. I have not kept up with what it is based on with the latest releases. Regards, Christopher. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
