[KLUG Members] Mount iBook HDD

[Jamie McCarthy]

Possible bad RAM.  Have you tried pulling the RAM DIMM(s) and
reseating them?  That won't void your warranty.  Worth a try.

> Can I just plug it into the Linux box with a crossover cable
> and will Red Hat mount it? If not, is there a way to do this?

You mean an Ethernet cable?  No, it doesn't work that way;  the
computer has to boot into a running operating system before you
can transfer files from the hard drive across the network.

If you have a second Mac, you can try connecting them with a
Firewire cable and holding down T to mount the iBook's disk.

And, you can try manually removing the iBook's HD, plugging it
into a Linux box (using a 2.5"-to-3.5" IDE converter, probably;
I have one if you want to borrow it) and using dd_rescue or
similar to make a backup image.  But that will void your warranty
and it's not for the meek.  iBook drives are hard to get to.

Once you do that, you can probably install a kernel module to
read the Mac OS X filesystem from Linux, and mount that image on
Linux to pull off the files, which is I think what you're asking
about.  I don't know the details, but that's the easy part.
-- 
  Jamie McCarthy
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  jamie at mccarthy.vg