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Re:Jobs responds to outrage over MacBook's missing FireWire by Angostura on Friday October 17, 2008 @07:05PM (#336106)
Sorry - how exactly do you mount the disk of an unbootable Mac on another machine, via an Ethernet cable?
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Re:Jobs responds to outrage over MacBook's missing FireWire by iigs on Friday October 17, 2008 @07:26PM (#336116)
The protocol you'd use is iSCSI. You could hack this together with commercial iSCSI initiators on the working machine, and some kind of LiveCD target, but Apple would need to release an initiator in OSX to make it slick and easy. There is one for Windows, Linux, and the BSDs, and Solaris, so asking for this feature in OSX doesn't seem entirely unreasonable.
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Re:Jobs responds to outrage over MacBook's missing FireWire by jeromewbrock on Friday October 17, 2008 @09:29PM (#336175)
look up openfiler

http://www.openfiler.com/

put that on a boot cd and you're all set.

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Re:Jobs responds to outrage over MacBook's missing FireWire by kqr2 on Friday October 17, 2008 @08:11PM (#336139)
You can try booting off of a live CD which in most cases will allow you to mount the disk and access the ethernet port.
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