I am at this game for the last few years. There are two solutions to this:
Solution 1: If you have multiple OSs (like me) with Debian 2.1, Slack-7,
and Win-98, (and BeOS till recently):
a) Create a separate partition, (Type of partition msdos or vfat).
Use "fips" for non destructive re-partitioning of existing DOS
partitions in case you do not want a ner installation.
b) This will show up automatically in DOS/ Win as Drive "X"
c) From Linux mount this partition, as umsdos, (otherwise, long
file names will be juggered). Since the partition I use is hdb3,
I mount it as follows:
mount -t umsdos /dev/hdb3 /archive
d) Having a separate partition has the advantage that all OSs which
can access a MS DOS partition can be used for sharing data
inclusive of mp3s, GIFs, HTML and other files.
Solution 2: Just mount your DOS/ Win9x partition as msdos or vfat
to a mount point of your choice. All long filenames in this case would
be 8.3 format. Just suitable enough for transfer of data, but not installing.
USM Bish
On Wed, 09 Aug 2000, Matt Gagné wrote:
> I need to transfer some program files and stuff from my windows machine
> (where I download the stuff) to the Linux machine (where I am learning to
> set it up) Can someone tell me the best way to do that? Thanks.
>
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> Matt Gagné
> Greensboro, NC
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