Re: [newbie] looking at my pc files from Linux

[Andy Goth]

> 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.

I know to mount a plain DOS disk with:

mount -t msdos /dev/hXX /mnt/Y

(hXX is, for example, hda1; Y is, for example; c:--the mount point)

mount -t vfat /dev/hXX /mnt/Y

will mount a DOS disk "augmented" by Windows to support long file names.

What more do you need to know?