On Sat, 08 Nov 2003 02:22, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "ScruLoose" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 21:47 > Subject: Re: heres my noob install questions, smart people please help > > In linux or windows I dont qualify as smart but I have some experience with > this subject. I think you are under some misconception about whats > happening. I had a windows system and a RH system on the same disk. The > RH system auto mounted the windows at /mnt/windows so I had access to all > of the windows files it was easy to transfer xxx to RH by cp xxx xxx. I > was mostly using gimp on the RH but could not think of a way to transfer > from RH to windows except via floppy. Consider the following when windows > is mounted on the linux system it is just a file on a directory > (mnt/windows) windows isnt running! Should you write a file to > /mnt/windows there is nothing to check for free space,
Surely the Linux that you're running will check for free space if you write to a FAT32 partition? > nothing to register > the file as far as windows is concerned the file dosent exist but you have > corrupted the system by overwriting files that it knows about. What would > happen ? Who knows! Hmmm... I have a Lose98 partition on my box... maybe I'll just copy a couple of files to it and see what happens when I boot w98 again.... (Btw, DOS doesn't care if I do that. Nor is DOS nearly so paranoid about where it boots from. A far superior OS to Windows, is DOS 8) cr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
