On Mon, 7 Jan 2002 01:47,Anita Lewis scribed: > If you just want to download material to put on the Linux partition, you > can download it in Windows and leave it in a folder on your desktop. Then > boot into Linux and do: > > mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt (if Windows is on /dev/hda1) > cd /mnt/windows/desktop/ > ls (You will see what is on your desktop)
NOT a good idea! this is due to the fact that windows does not rcognise the file types, .gz, .bz2 or rpm. I did this for a while at a stage where I was unable for a short time to use linux online, I received files that when transferred over to linux proved to be corrupted or shortened and would not undo or if they did were missing parts. This did not happen to all files, just about 60% and only the important ones............. -- Keith Antoine aka 'skippy' 18 Arkana St, The Gap, Queensland 4061 Australia PH:61733002161 Retired Geriatric, Sometime Electronics Engineer, Knowall, Brain in storage _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
