On Thu, 24 Jun 1999, Gentleman Loser wrote:
> I got a CD with the Debian realease(a cd from the Boot Magazine's
> suplementary CD).
>
> I guess all in all im fine with just blazing over my hard drive
> with linux, but i really want to keep my mp3 files, text/doc/wri
> files, my webpage, and real audio files. If you could only tell
> me one thing it would be how i could carry these things over to
> linux. I don't have a cd burner to store them, and some of the
> files are bigger that a floppy. The only thing i can think of is
> keeping them on the second drive while the first drive makes the
> conversion to linux, then im hoping that in linux i can still
> access the non-linux second drive, put it's contents onto the
> first drive than convert the second drive to linux. If that can
> be done, could you expalain how?
>
> also, is there any way to still use Win95 apps in linux, i like to
> make techno music on my computer and would like to carry over my
> production music(and video games for that matter) to linux, is
> this possible??
>
> thanks for any info you can give me, also if you can think of
> anything else usefull to a linux newbie like me, please send it.
Joshua
If you install Debian on one drive, data on the other drive is
unlikely to be affected adversely, I suspect you have more data than
you really want to put on floppies. However, Assuming your files are
on MS DOS file system, you could use pkzip to put them on a sequence
of floppies.
You will be able to read MS DOS, Vfat, and NT file systems from
Linux if support for these is in your kernel. The install kernels
usually have MSDOS file system support, but I don't think the will
have NT or Vfat (wind 95 32 bit fs) support. So I do not know
whether you will be able to get to your files with the kernel that
comes on your CD.
This is a wonderful bunch of men and women who provide help on this
list. Others probably will respond with words of assistance,
encouragement, and caution.
I wish you luck in installing and learning to use Linux.
--David
David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely,
useful, technically accurate, and friendly.
(I'm hoping this is all of the above!)
