Some extra news about Mac Mini G4 and Slackintosh 12:- firewire disk (250Gb LaCie) was OK (seen as "/dev/sda", ran "mac- fdisk" to show partitions, mounting HFS/HFS+ partitions, etc): plugging ieee1394 cable was sufficient; also, KDE was able to show some partition links on the desktop;
- firewire networking also OK (must "modprobe eth1394" manually to enable "eth2", then "ifconfig eth2 ..." and everything works, faster than common ethernet; plugging ieee1394 cable didn't modprobe it).
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