Depending on whether you're booting a live environment, a console-based installer, or a standard installed environment, these packages may not be available. *A caveat is that Linux will not be able to create, write to, or mount HFS+ filesystems without the hfsprogs, hfsutils and hfsplus packages (in Debian-based distros). Linux can read HFS+ just fine*, no problem, anyhow. For our purposes, we won't be reading data, just over-writing the drives with a new operating system. Turns out, the host computer (the one reading the target drive) doesn't have to be running OSX, it just has to be able to read the file system on the drive. It essentially allows you to boot a Mac as if it were an external hard drive, and read the hard drive on another machine via firewire. Target disk mode is a fancy firmware feature provided by Apple since 1999.
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