Hello everyone. I posted this post in the xandros forums. But I post it here also, 'cause I'm desperate for help.

I am in need of your expertise for a problem I need to solve.

My friends Macintosh totally crashed. He let his kids mess around with it, and now nothing works. He has *really* sensitive data he need to recover (this is where you experts enter the picture). He has tried everything in his power and knowlege to recover it from his Macintosh. It was unsuccesfull since he can not boot.

I want to take the Macintosh harddrive and put it into my brothers computer. Using the power of Xandros, I want to read and backup the content of that harddrive. After investigating around, I found out two things; Mac users are not very helpful (most of them are assholes). And that Macintosh' file system is called hfs.

So I figured that there are two possible sollutions. Either I find something that make Xandros read hfs, or I find a Macintosh linux boot cd thing. First is preferable.

Now I need your help.

If anyone know if there is a way to read Macintosh harddrives from Xandros File Manager, Konqueror, or anything. Please help. I am willing to go trough alot of trouble to make this work.

This is really important, so I beg you to help.

The Linux kernel supports HFS and HFS+ ("Extended HFS"). Make sure your kernel has support for them, either built in or as modules. If you don't, build a new kernel with support for them.

When done you should be able to view the partition list using fdisk -l, and mount them using the mount command. Then you can do whatever you want to copy the files (unless your friend did something that severely corrupted the filesystem) - use dd to create disk images which you can do whatever you want with (mount as loopback so you can treat them as real partitions), or simply copy files one by one.


Håkan

Thanks alot for FAST reply!

Do you know how I can check wether my kernel support this or not?