My friend asked me to save his data on a Mac OS X partition since his machine couldn't boot properly into Mac OS X GUI mode. So I booted the machine with Ubuntu 5.04 Live CD. I know it was an old version but who cares as long as it supports hfsplus filesystem used by Mac OS X.
So I mounted one of the partitions where he saved his work with this:
sudo mount -t hfsplus /dev/hda5 /mnt (for Ubuntu)
(If you are using other distro and logged in as root, just omit the sudo from above command.)
where /dev/hda5 is the partition and /mnt is the mount point.
From now, insert usb drive and copy file to it. After this, he can wipe out all partitions and/or reinstall Mac OS X.
kes abg wan pnye ibook nih..
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good job boss!!
yup. thanks.
ReplyDeletei guess there was no other mac at that time to invoke the target disk mode.
ReplyDeletethis could work for me :-)
hi mka. pls post your result here. much appreciated. thanks.
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