Igor Grubman wrote: > > On Sat, 1 Mar 1997, Ralph Winslow wrote: > > > Lawrence Chim wrote: > > > > > > Harmon Sequoya Nine wrote: > > > > <snip> > > > > first is with the "mtools" (do a "man mtools" to get more info), > > > > although > > > > this is usually only with a floppy. > > > > > > > > The second way is to mount the win95 partition using: > > > > mount -t vfat /dev/??? /mountDir > > > > > > > > This should work like a charm. Let me know if it doesn't ... > > > > > > > > -- Harmon > > > > > > Do you realise that FAT32 is different from FAT16? > > > Only OEM WIN95 supports FAT32! > > > > Is this why I have to put up with those whatev~1.foo names? Someone > > posted their reluctance to deal with other than .txt files to or from > > the WinDoze slice. I've had success with moving .exe .doc .etc files > > to and from - no problem (except for the truncated file names). > > no, if you can mount and use the win95 filesystem, and the only problem is > truncated filenames, then you have vfat (which is still FAT16), and you > can solve the problem by adding "-t vfat" to the mount command as noted > above. >
vfat is not a FAT32. With FAT32, the cluster size is 4KB EVEN the partition is bigger than 512MB. FAT32 is not compatible with VFAT. You need to apply the patch from http://www-plateau.cs.berkeley.edu/people/chaffee/fat32.html, then compile the kernel.