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golinux

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## Can I boot the Refracta live disk on a Mac?

Wed Jan 02, 2013 9:10 pm

What's the best way to make isos on an ext4 formatted drive available to a Mac? Can I boot the live refracta disk and mount the usb drive from there? Then would I be able to transfer those files to the Mac or burn them to DVDs using xfburn? (Sorry . . . don't like Brasero.) I find the whole Mac culture so offensive. They actually make their users pay for ntfs-3g! But that's a whole other discussion . . .
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## Re: Can I boot the Refracta live disk on a Mac?

Thu Jan 03, 2013 11:04 am

I'm pretty sure it won't work, and I don't know enough about Macs or running linux on a Mac to say what needs to be changed. Will a debian i386 installation CD boot on a Mac?
golinux

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## Re: Can I boot the Refracta live disk on a Mac?

Thu Jan 03, 2013 4:20 pm

Well, I don't know much about Macs either. And I'm not too keen about experimenting on someone's shiny new toy.
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## Re: Can I boot the Refracta live disk on a Mac?

Thu Jan 03, 2013 10:23 pm

I got hard times to understand what the problem is.
What i seem to understand:
Someone has a MAC.
He has also a hard-drive, formatted with ext4, and data on that
He wants the data on the MAC
Most easy:
mount ext4-partition with any Linux, upload to the web (say dropbox or google-docs or such) and download from the MAC.
On the LAN (assuming privacy problems are involved or the amount of data is too huge) one could attach any device to the router, run a LinuxLive CD, install apache, mount the ext4 and symlink the stuff to /var/www/share (after that is created with mkdir). Access that with safari-web-browser with the address: 192.168.144/share (whatever ifconfig tells bout the IP of the LinuxLiveCD running apache and mounting the ext4)
Should be that easy.
sshfs/sftp/filezilla/rsync or similar tools should be available for a mac
10daystestversion:
http://www.paragon-software.com/home/ex ... nload.html
(though from FreeBSD i recall access to ext-* partitions to be a pain in the butt and ext4 being completely impossible).
woof or such is in my head (i did never do it).
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## Re: Can I boot the Refracta live disk on a Mac?

Fri Jan 04, 2013 1:00 am

> nadir wrote:I got hard times to understand what the problem is.

It would be easiest to access the HD directly from her computer. The ISOs stored on the ext4 hard drive are each 4+gb formatted to fit on a DVD. Uploading 20-30 of these would be a royal PITA, the files are likely too big anyway and I really don't want them floating around the internet even for a short time. LAN would involve moving desktop computers and related hardware which I'm not willing to do. Don't even know if there is a multiport router or just a basic one port modem at her place and I don't own one. I found that ExtFS stuff a few days ago. Pissed me off that they charge for it just like for ntfs-3g after the 10 day trial . . .
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## Re: Can I boot the Refracta live disk on a Mac?

Fri Jan 04, 2013 2:19 am

no second device, no router, no nothing. If you want to dance you must make sure the band is there (it's the land of the free or the
third world?)
This way or that way anyone willing to answer will need to get more info (which Mac and which operating system)
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## Re: Can I boot the Refracta live disk on a Mac?

Fri Jan 04, 2013 5:17 am

Just emailed to try to get the specs. Could take a few days for a response.
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## Re: Can I boot the Refracta live disk on a Mac?

Fri Jan 04, 2013 8:49 am

That is probably the best i will be able to say anyway.
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## Re: Can I boot the Refracta live disk on a Mac?

Fri Jan 04, 2013 3:20 pm

There's a way to install x11 on a mac (several ways, I think) and run linux apps. Pretty sure there's a free way to do it. I don't remember any names right now, but check around. I would guess that it allows you to use ext filesystems.
Another option would be to set up a web server on your computer and then access it from friend's computer. Of course, that involves setting up port forwarding on your router, and I'd advise you to use a non-standard port. I do that to get the isos up onto ibiblio, because it seems that whenever I try it with sftp, the connection breaks at some point, and I need to start over. Instead, I login to ibiblio through ssh and pull the isos with wget. That way, if it stops, I can resume where I left off with 'wget -c'.
Setting up your own web server is very easy. I'd tell you how, but the forum software won't let me.
(useful code removed)
You might also need to set permissions on the isos directory to allow others to read.
(more useful code removed)
Then from your friend's computer:
(same thing here, too.)
Shoot me a pm if you want, and I'll show you the secret incantations.
Oh, I just read your post again, and I see you don't have a router and you have a lot of gigabytes to move. Forget about moving them over the internet.
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## Re: Can I boot the Refracta live disk on a Mac?

Fri Jan 04, 2013 4:03 pm

> nadir wrote:
> That is probably the best i will be able to say anyway.

And there you have it. Obviously the best solution but no chance of it happening.
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