Thanks. I thought about the floppy option but knew the doc would be to big. I didn't think about the cd because I am out of disks right now. I did use one to take a good sized program to my son's computer down stairs. I need to get some more cd rRWs. I discovered yesterday the Mtools and had success with them in the little shell on the quick start section of the bottom bar. I will be going there to look for the windows files with MC. I really miss the old Norton commander with all it's abilities although I did mess up a disk one time by changing the media byte. That was a dangerous feature. I had a similar feature on an old Atari 800 that I used to change a character in one of two duplicate file names. I couldn't kill that old Atari. A ceiling fan dropped four feet landing on it and it hardly blinked. Didn't crash or nothing. That's rugged for you.
On 18 Dec 2005 at 16:24, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > jim allAn wrote: > > Yep! That's what I need. I have been to long in GUI and have > > forgotten a lot of command line stuff that would still be useful in > > Linux. This is the url of one of the book pages I am reading. It > > should give you a clue as to what I am reading. It has a lot of nice > > stuff in it. It certainly is written for Linux dummies like me. > > > > http://rute.2038bug.com/node7.html.gz#SECTION00710000000000000000 > > > Ok. Transferring the files can be done a lot of different ways, > depending on your system. You can put the files on a floppy, you can > use a USB "pen" drive, burn them to a CD, etc. > > If this is a dual boot machine, then your Windows partition may be > mounted on at /mnt/windows. If it is, you can access the files > directly. > > Now, to do the actual copy, you can use the "cp" command. Another > nice tool is a program called Midnight Commander. (You start it with > the "mc" command.) If you have ever used Norton Commander, you will > feel right at home using it. > > A couple more links you may find helpful: > http://mandriva.vmlinuz.ca/index.php/SysAdmin/CLI > http://www.ibiblio.org/mc/FAQ > > You may also want to read: > http://mandriva.vmlinuz.ca/index.php/Support/Mailinglists/Etiquette > It covers how to post on this list. The convention on this list is > to post your reply at the bottom of the message, not the top. > > TIA > Mikkel > -- > > Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, > for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! > ____________________________________________________ > Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? > Go to http://store.mandriva.com > Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com > ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com ____________________________________________________
