On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 23:12:46 -0400
Jeff Macdonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I just bought a new Dell Laptop for my wife and I'd like to use her
old one for Linux. I have a file server running Gentoo that has mp3
and videos and runs Samba for windows networking. What I'd like to do
is dd
On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 23:12 -0400, Jeff Macdonald wrote:
Hi,
I just bought a new Dell Laptop for my wife and I'd like to use her
old one for Linux. I have a file server running Gentoo that has mp3
and videos and runs Samba for windows networking. What I'd like to do
is dd the windows disk and
Kenneth E. Lussier wrote:
AIf you are just trying to preserve the data, you could use mkisofs and create an iso9660 file system, then mount it like this:
mount -t iso9660 -o ro,loop=/dev/loop0 windows.iso /foo
All of the files will be preserved and usable (not writable, though),
but it will no
On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 23:12, Jeff Macdonald wrote:
Hi,
I just bought a new Dell Laptop for my wife and I'd like to use her
old one for Linux. I have a file server running Gentoo that has mp3
and videos and runs Samba for windows networking. What I'd like to do
is dd the windows disk and have
On 10 Sep 2004 09:26:21 -0400, Bruce Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 23:12, Jeff Macdonald wrote:
Hi,
I just bought a new Dell Laptop for my wife and I'd like to use her
I don't know enough about VFAT vs FAT32 to know if the 110GB file will
pose a problem or not.
FAT:
On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 08:40:15 -0400, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote:
Kenneth E. Lussier wrote:
Or... if it's a relatively small disk, you could just take an image of
the disk (or partition), itself, using dd or even cat (eg. dd
if=/dev/hda1 of=image_of_c_drive.img), and then mount it thusly:
mount -t
Unless it's vitally important to preserve some of the
obscure Windows-specific file attributes, tar seems
like a fine solution.
Otherwise, if I were doing this I think I'd create
a partition that's just large enough to hold the
collection of files in question, initialize that raw
partition with
You've gotten some good advice so far, but I just wanted to mention
another alternative that I've done on several different systems,
including GNU/Linux and FreeBSD.
If you really are interested in having a FAT32 or some specific
filesystem available on a drive without repartitioning, then
