Re: can Linux r/w Windoze FAT32?

1997-03-02 Thread Lawrence Chim
Igor Grubman wrote: On Sat, 1 Mar 1997, Ralph Winslow wrote: Lawrence Chim wrote: Harmon Sequoya Nine wrote: snip first is with the mtools (do a man mtools to get more info), although this is usually only with a floppy. The second way is to mount the win95

Re: can Linux r/w Windoze FAT32?

1997-03-01 Thread Harmon Sequoya Nine
Unless its changed in the past few months, Linux can read and write to dos/windows 95 partitions without a problem. There are two ways. The first is with the mtools (do a man mtools to get more info), although this is usually only with a floppy. The second way is to mount the win95 partition

Re: can Linux r/w Windoze FAT32?

1997-03-01 Thread Richard Morin
On Fri, 28 Feb 1997, [iso-8859-1] Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote: Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 00:57:43 -0300 (ARST) From: [iso-8859-1] Nicolás Lichtmaier [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Alex Lobkovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian user list debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: can Linux r/w Windoze FAT32

Re: can Linux r/w Windoze FAT32?

1997-03-01 Thread Lawrence Chim
Harmon Sequoya Nine wrote: Unless its changed in the past few months, Linux can read and write to dos/windows 95 partitions without a problem. There are two ways. The first is with the mtools (do a man mtools to get more info), although this is usually only with a floppy. The second way

Re: can Linux r/w Windoze FAT32?

1997-03-01 Thread Tim Sailer
In your email to me, Lawrence Chim, you wrote: Harmon Sequoya Nine wrote: Unless its changed in the past few months, Linux can read and write to dos/windows 95 partitions without a problem. There are two ways. The first is with the mtools (do a man mtools to get more info), although

Re: can Linux r/w Windoze FAT32?

1997-03-01 Thread Ralph Winslow
Lawrence Chim wrote: Harmon Sequoya Nine wrote: snip first is with the mtools (do a man mtools to get more info), although this is usually only with a floppy. The second way is to mount the win95 partition using: mount -t vfat /dev/??? /mountDir This should work like a charm.

Re: can Linux r/w Windoze FAT32?

1997-03-01 Thread Igor Grubman
On Sat, 1 Mar 1997, Ralph Winslow wrote: Lawrence Chim wrote: Harmon Sequoya Nine wrote: snip first is with the mtools (do a man mtools to get more info), although this is usually only with a floppy. The second way is to mount the win95 partition using: mount -t vfat

Re: can Linux r/w Windoze FAT32?

1997-03-01 Thread John Goerzen
Yes. And it also supports long filenames on those partitions. Hi, Having benefited greatly from this list before, I do not doubt for a moment that someone will know the answer to this: Does Linux read/write to the new Win95 Fat32 filesystem? thanks in advance. -alex -- John

Re: can Linux r/w Windoze FAT32?

1997-02-28 Thread Elie Rosenblum
On Thu, 27 Feb 1997, Alex Lobkovsky wrote: Does Linux read/write to the new Win95 Fat32 filesystem? Compile in vfat fs support when you make your kernel, or make the modules for it and insmod them or let kerneld autoload them. --- Elie Rosenblum ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) System Administrator,

Re: can Linux r/w Windoze FAT32?

1997-02-28 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
On Thu, 27 Feb 1997, Alex Lobkovsky wrote: Does Linux read/write to the new Win95 Fat32 filesystem? You'll need to compile support for that into the kernel. The support is still in alpha state. Check http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/people/chaffee/fat32.html Nicolás Lichtmaier.- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: can Linux r/w Windoze FAT32?

1997-02-28 Thread Tim Sailer
In your email to me, Alex Lobkovsky, you wrote: Hi, Having benefited greatly from this list before, I do not doubt for a moment that someone will know the answer to this: Does Linux read/write to the new Win95 Fat32 filesystem? Heh.. I know the answer because I just asked it a few

RE: can Linux r/w Windoze FAT32?

1997-02-28 Thread David Puryear
Hi Alex, On 27-Feb-97 Alex Lobkovsky wrote: Having benefited greatly from this list before, I do not doubt for a moment that someone will know the answer to this: Does Linux read/write to the new Win95 Fat32 filesystem? Yes, check here:

Re: can Linux r/w Windoze FAT32?

1997-02-28 Thread David Puryear
Hi, On 28-Feb-97 Tim Sailer wrote: In your email to me, Alex Lobkovsky, you wrote: Hi, Having benefited greatly from this list before, I do not doubt for a moment that someone will know the answer to this: Does Linux read/write to the new Win95 Fat32 filesystem? Heh.. I know the answer

RE: can Linux r/w Windoze FAT32?

1997-02-28 Thread Wieboldt, David
Yes! Put your windoze partitition in your /etc/fstab file. Something like this /dev/hda1 /mnt/windoze vfat defaults 1 1 Note that I may not have this syntax exactly correct, so check it before you write it. Also you need to create /mnt/windoze before attempting to mount it. Ah, yes, your