On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Robert Thrall wrote:
| I am running both Windows 98 and Linux-Mandrake 6.5 on my machine, but
| Windows is on one hard disk with these specs: Partition -1 Statis- A
| Type-PRI DOS Volume Label- My Computer Mbytes-8025 System-Fat 32
| Usage-100%. I have loaded Mandrake-Linux 6.5 on a second hard disk with
| these specs: /dev/hdc3 579M 409M-used Avail-140M Mounted on /
|
| /dev/hdc1 547M 32K-used Avail-547M Mounted
| on-mnt/DOS_hdc1
|
| My local cabel company COGECO informs me that no Linux system is
| compatible with their modems so I can not connect to the Internet
| through Linux. However, can Linux read Windows 98? Can I still dowload
| software in Windows and somehow transfer it to Linux. The word
| 'transfer' may be wrong, but can I use the two together somehow so that
| I can download software to the Linus system. Any help would be
| appreciated.
|
| Robert
Robert,
You should be able to do your downloads with Windows, then restart to Linux,
and mount the DOS partition you did the download to, then do as you will with
the downloaded file.
HTH,
Ernie
