[Fink-beginners] Caution: no HFS+ for Linux

2002-04-25 Thread Michael Bovee
To the person who mentioned reformatting as HFS+ for a Linux partition: I'm _pretty sure_ there's no support yet for HFS+ under Linux. So dont format a linux partition as HFS+, it wont work. Regards, --Michael ___ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PR

[Fink-beginners] mounting Linux partition

2002-04-25 Thread Michael Bovee
Also, I'm pretty sure there's no support yet for HFS+ under Linux. So dont format a linux partition as HFS+, it wont work. Regards, --Michael -- ^^ Michael L. Bovee, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow University of Vermont Department of Biochemistry B403 Given Building Bur

Re: [Fink-beginners] 'root' account

2002-04-23 Thread Michael Bovee
>>Read this - and be careful with that root account! >> >>http://www.osxfaq.com/Tutorials/Root_User_Creation/index.ws > > >But if I was you I'd think twice about this - I am using OS X for a >long time now, and I have never ever felt the need to enable the >root account. When I need to do root

[Fink-beginners] DevTools and 'root'

2002-04-23 Thread Michael Bovee
Hi, I'm new to the Fink Beginners list today, so here's a couple beginner questions that have been bothering me... Chris D. has been very helpful (thanks!) but I've hit another headscratcher: 1) Apparently, I do indeed need to install the Developer Tools, so I downloaded the 200+ MB package t