Why all the fuss? It is possible to mount WIN98 fat32 partitions. Simply
download your stuff on the windows machine and mount the partition the *.gz
files are stored on. I've used it for ages.
Lionel
----- Original Message -----
From: Dave Waddling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, July 29, 1999 6:56 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] looking at my pc files from Linux
> Russ
>
> Give this a try. Repartition your Linux drive with a Fat area (ie split
your
> 2gig drive into 1.8 for Linux and .2 for windows). You can then use the .2
> area of your second drive as a virtual memory area for Windose. This will
> actually speed up Windoze by allowing one drive to deliver files (C:) and
> the second drive(D:) to handle the swapping. The added benefit to this is
> that you can just save the files you want to move from Win to Lin in that
> 200 meg part of your second drive. Boot in Linux and there it is! You are
> best to zip the files before putting them into the swap drive and then
unzip
> them when you get into Linux as it will migrate the files far better then
> trying to simply open them in Linux. Don't forget to issue the comand line
>
> unzip -a files.zip
>
> when you go to unpack your files or it will mess up the text files.
>
> I have been using exactly this profile for about a year now and it really
> works well.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: russ proudman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: July 29, 1999 12:39 PM
> Subject: [newbie] looking at my pc files from Linux
>
>
> > I'm running Mandrake 6 Linux. It's on a Pentium 166 (cyrix) and I boot
> > Windows 95 from the hard disk and Linux from a floppy.
> >
> > I have 2 separate hard drives. The first one if for Windows stuff, the
> > second is for Linux. This setup works fine but I would like to be able
to
> > get files from the Windows hard disk. For example, I have Oracle's DB
(for
> > Linux) on the Windows hard disk.
> >
> > Why? Because I have a winmodem and can download it there and not from
> Linux.
> > Until I get a non-Windows modem how can I get the files.
> >
> > In linuxconf it identifies the Windows disk as 2 partisions (16 bit if I
> > remember correctly) but can I just mount it somehow and then CP or ftp
the
> > file across to the Linux disk?
> >
> > Thx. in advance.
> >
> >
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