On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Lehel Bernadt wrote: > On 09-Aug-2000 USM Bish wrote: > > 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. > ^^^ > Oh really ? 8.3 with vfat ?
Unbelievable, but true. Just try it out, and you will see for yourself. > And I think the author wants to transfer files between two machines, not two > OSes on the same machine. Sorry, I misunderstood the problem here. I apologise for this goof-up. > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- : ------------------------- Its a BishMail :-) ------------------------- :
