On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 02:47:20PM -0700, Tovar wrote: > this isn't foolproof since MacOS does allow the user to move or rename > the System\ Folder to whatever/wherever the hell they feel like it, > though i have known very few who actually do that. > > Yes, indeed, beware of that. I've been naming my System Folder's with > its version number back from MacPlus days and i would expect others to > do likewise. There is an approved way of finding the 'blessed folder', > but i'd have to dig through old Tech Notes to find it. On the other > hand, if you're going have installation dialogs anyway, you might put > your best guess in the dialog and let the user help you find it. I > zhink The 'busybox' does something like that and i found that helpful > in the initial install (since it was getting things out of the 'System > Folder' with BootX).
the blessed directory id (something akin to an inode i guess) is stored in the HFS master directory block, however i don't think hfsutils has any support for such things, other then marking directories as blessed. probably a debconf dialog asking for a device and path is the most straightforward, providing sane defaults. (perhaps grep through mac-fdisk -l /dev/hda output to find HFS partitions). -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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