You can read and write to a loopback file system just fine; "man
losetup" for details.
That said, I don't know whether vmware uses "real" loopback files or
does its own thing; I use raw partitions myself.
On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, you wrote:
| AFAIK, vm-ware uses the loopback-device principle for its FS. That means it
| mounts a file as its filesystem (similar to mounting an ISO-image in linux).
| Therefore I fear it's impossible to copy the file directly onto the win 3.1
| filesys.
|
| What you can try is check out if you can get any network access in win31,
| preferably FTP, and if that works, log into your linux-box and "download" the
| file. So basically: get that internet working under VM-ware.
|
| ps: isn't there another way? Can't you access the linux FS as a network drive in
| vm-ware? I don't use it, so I don't know... Perhaps putting it on a floppy, and
| reading the floppy in vm-ware? Just a few suggestions, I might not be making
| much sense here. ;-)
|
| On Mar 15 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
|
| > Dear friends:
| >
| > This is a footnote to my long letter concerning Linux, VMware and Win3.1
| > (which is in fact one of the guest OS's supported by VMware for Linux).
| >
| > Here is a simple question:
| >
| > I downloaded an xyz.exe file for Win3.1 using Linux into my /home/sher
| > directory (At this point I still don't know how to access the Internet
| > on Win3.1/Vmware). Now how do I move or copy this file to Win3.1.
| > Obviously, it would be something like:
| >
| > #cp xyz.exe to C:\ (the Windows directory)?
| >
| > Right?
| >
| > But where in the world am I going to find Drive C:\ on my Linux system.
| > I checked the file system, KDE's file system. It's not in
| > /home/sher/vmware/win31. So where is it? Or is there a special way to do
| > this?
| >
| > Just curious.
| >
| > Thank you so much.
| >
| > Benjamin
| >
|
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