Hi all. I recently upgraded my Centrino laptop with a larger hard drive.
I've set it up with a dual boot of Win XP Pro and a Linux distro so I can work on "iPod and Linux" for the OSCON booth.
I do not want to reformat my iPod's disk for fat32, prefer to keep it in the Mac OS X native hfs+ format.
I already have a Windows utility program Mac Drive 5, which allows WIndows to mount a Mac-formatted drive (including iPod) with full read/write access. This will allow me to use iTunes for Windows on my iPod w/o having to use fat32 conversion.
On the linux side, I wanted to use Fedora Core either 3 or 4 because I've seen that the support for the Mac hfs+ file system is already built in. On time, I installed/booted Fedora Core 3 on my amd64 with an external Firewire HD attached, formatted in a Mac with hfs+. The "udev" automatically detected the hfs+ partition and mounted it read/write. I successfully copied a file to this disk.
I tried install of both FC 3 and 4 on my Gateway/Centrino laptop and both come up in a non-useable graphical mode. I didn't bother to try to set things right, but I'd like to know if anyone has succeeded with FC on a laptop. I recall someone had mentioned success with Ubuntu and I may explore that possibility later.
After I gave up on FC, I successfully installed SUSE 9.3 Pro. In the long run, this is a likely candidate for my regular desktop/laptop OS. Probably does not have hfs+ support built-in, but probably not difficult to add.
If not for the OSCON deadline, I'd stick to SUSE. If someone can point me toward getting FC configured with a working graphics mode on my laptop, I'd want to pursue that path.
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