I love linux! Thank you Tom for tomsrtbt. Thanks for the help. My friend took the
Netgear back to the store and a different friend loaned me an older LinkSys. I had it
working within seconds.
I'm in the middle of copying 350 Megs off of the laptop, using smbmount to access a
linux fileserver with samba on it.
Unfortunately, I only have the 8.3 filenames. I have tried the -t vfat option but to
no avail.
I used this sequence of commands to mount it:
mkdir /tmp/hda1
mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /tmp/hda1
fdisk identifies the partition as Win95 FAT32.
When mounting hda1 as vfat, I can create a long file/directory and have it preserved
through a reboot. That long file name
gets converted between 8.3 and long by unmounting and remounting the partition as
msdos.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
-Gordon
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Gordon Chamberlin Software Architect
Visualize, Inc. http://www.visualizeinc.com
(602) 861-0999 ext. 14 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
