On 11-Aug-2000 USM Bish wrote: > On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Lehel Bernadt wrote: >> On 09-Aug-2000 USM Bish wrote: >> > I am at this game for the last few years. There are two solutions to this: >> > >> > Solution 1: If you have multiple OSs (like me) with Debian 2.1, Slack-7, >> > and Win-98, (and BeOS till recently): >> > >> > a) Create a separate partition, (Type of partition msdos or vfat). >> > Use "fips" for non destructive re-partitioning of existing DOS >> > partitions in case you do not want a ner installation. >> > b) This will show up automatically in DOS/ Win as Drive "X" >> > c) From Linux mount this partition, as umsdos, (otherwise, long >> > file names will be juggered). Since the partition I use is hdb3, >> > I mount it as follows: >> > >> > mount -t umsdos /dev/hdb3 /archive >> > >> > d) Having a separate partition has the advantage that all OSs which >> > can access a MS DOS partition can be used for sharing data >> > inclusive of mp3s, GIFs, HTML and other files. >> > >> > Solution 2: Just mount your DOS/ Win9x partition as msdos or vfat >> > to a mount point of your choice. All long filenames in this case would >> > be 8.3 format. Just suitable enough for transfer of data, but not >> > installing. >> ^^^ >> Oh really ? 8.3 with vfat ? > > Unbelievable, but true. Just try it out, and you will see for yourself.
Well, I don't know. Just look: ------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ grep win_1 /etc/fstab /dev/hda1 /win_1 vfat gid=1001,umask=007,noexec,quiet 0 2 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -F /win_1 Jdk/ artec/ command.com home/ mix_95/ temp/ My Documents/ autoexec.bat config.sys io.sys msdos.sys util/ Office51/ autoexec.emu djgpp/ linux/ nc/ win386.swp Program Files/ bc/ drivers/ logo.sys rcs/ windows/ Wincmd/ bp/ games/ mirc/ recycled/ winmcad/ ------------ Now there are *definitely* some long filenames... Or maybe I misunderstood something ?
