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Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 17:37:18 +0200
From: "Marco Trillo" <marcotrillo@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: bootloader installation
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Hi,

On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 5:36 PM, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> wrote:
> I suppose that writing a simple write-only HFS implementation should not be
> too hard, either. Maybe this could be hooked into gpart bootcode?

The "hfsutils" package is very useful to format HFS partitions and
copy the loader to it from within FreeBSD itself, without needing Mac
OS.

Regards,
Marco.