Mac CD-ROM Compatibility Reading

chilibowl · 03-24-2003, 07:45 PM

Hello Fellow LINUX heads and wannabe,s. I have a small question here .I have a MAC-CDROM of an old game, and on the BOX it say,s SYSTEM 6.0.7 & SYSTEM 7 Compatible.

From what I understand ,some of MAC OS is UNIX based. Could I possibly view a CD-ROM for this level MAC om my REDHAT 7.3 INTEL 166 PC BOX???? or is this not feasible????

Thankx ,Chilibowl

michaelk · 03-24-2003, 08:52 PM

I do believe that all CD's are ISO9660 format even for MACs. Now OS X is the only unix based OS for the MAC. So you should be able to view the CD but thats about it. And anything written for version 6 or 7 will not run on OS X.

jailbait · 03-24-2003, 09:13 PM

In days of yore I received a CD-ROM that contained both the Windows version and the Mac version of some software. When I mounted the CD with mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom I was able to read the Windows files. When I mounted the CD-ROM as mount -t hfs /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom I could read the Mac files. Neither was very interesting.

The point being: If your old Mac CD-ROM is written in the hfs format, Linux can read it.