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@@ -677,6 +680,14 @@ If you create
+You must pick a partition that is formatted with either HFS or HFS+. If
+you have Mac OS X installed on a UFS partition (You can use the OS X "Disk
+Utility" app to check this), you will have to find another partition to use.
+If Mac OS X is installed on UFS, you probably have one or two partitions
+of the "Apple_Boot" type. They have HFS filesystems on them. Pick one,
+mount it under MacOS X, and store the files there.
+
Boot into OpenFirmware, and type at the prompt:
-