Re: [expert] Partition-in-a-file? ReiserFS?

2000-11-15 Thread civileme
On Tuesday 14 November 2000 23:29, you wrote: On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Tom Eastman wrote: This would be especially convenient for me to use in future since I have FAR more fat32 hard drive space on my computer then ext2 hard drive space (30GB and 6GB respectively). I want to be able to

Re: [expert] Partition-in-a-file? ReiserFS?

2000-11-14 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Tom Eastman wrote: This would be especially convenient for me to use in future since I have FAR more fat32 hard drive space on my computer then ext2 hard drive space (30GB and 6GB respectively). I want to be able to create a large file on FAT32, then mount the FILE as a

Re: [expert] Partition-in-a-file? ReiserFS?

2000-11-14 Thread Larry Marshall
system. I thought a cool way to do this would be to set up a linux-partition-in-a-file the same way that Linux4Windows does. Uh...why? Can anyone talk me through the process? Or point me to a website/FAQ/HOWTO Maybe talk you out of it (grin)? Why don't you simply tar them and store them

[expert] Partition-in-a-file? ReiserFS?

2000-11-14 Thread Tom Eastman
Hi there, I've just finished downloading the .iso files for Mandrake 7.2 but I have a few questions I want to ask about before I install it. First of all.. I want to backup a lot of stuff from my current linux system. I thought a cool way to do this would be to set up a