> 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
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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 o
russ proudman wrote:
> 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?
mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/c
Of course, modify the device and the mount
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 Wind
