On Mon, 04 Oct 1999, you wrote:
>
> >From a Windows pro, but Linux stupid...:)
>
> I have a few systems here..and as yet I don't have a working network. I wouold like
>to know if there is an easy way to transfer a Linux program (D/L'ed from the Net on
>Win98) from my PC to my Linux system...I can connect the hard-drive ( I have that
>Util that is supposed to look at Linux drives (Explore2FS.exe)) to the Win98 system,
>but what method should/could I use to "copy" from 98 to Mandrake?
> Thanks in advance...:)
>
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Well, I'll try to help with what I do, if you'll just
lose that html, please. I'm old an' decrepit an my eyes don't
work so well anymore ;-) .... besides, converted to plain text
(ascII) your post was six monitors wide ;-)
OK, I have a shared partition devoted for Linux and
Windows 98, formatted fat32, that both o/s's can use. I've run
RH, Slackware, and now Mandrake, and never had a problem using
files in one o/s that were d/l'd with the other o/s. Either
way, no problems, so I prob'ly can't help too much somebody
who believes this is a problem. I keep that shared partition
mounted with an etc/fstab entry like so:
/dev/hdb6 /Shared vfat
The only problem as I see it is Linux can see/work with
Windows files, but not the reverse. Now I also have that program
installed in W98 that you mentioned, Explore2fs, but even the
author says to use it with caution for anything else but 'read'.
So I only use that to check and see if a file(s) is in my
Linux partition. Other than that program, W98 doesn't even
know that Mandrake exists, and I'd just as soon keep it that
way. A minor glitch is that Netscape and StarOffice refuse
to save files to that shared drive. I suspect they don't
have fat32 recognition, like Mandrake does. All the other
apps that came with Mandrake will happily save files to Shared's
fat32 partition.
Sometimes I want access to my Windows partition on my
primary HDD. The good 'ol mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /Win does
it. /Win is a directory I created to mount my C:\ drive to. For
example, I recently copied some of the .ttf files in
C:\Windows\Fonts to /usr/X11R6/lib/ttfonts/ by opening two
instances of KFM and drag'n drop them into the .../ttfonts/
window. Then I (usually :) remember to umount /Win when
I'm done.
Does that help? or did I completely misunderstand the question?
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.. Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
