Re: Beginner- need help in understanding

2002-09-28 Thread Randall R Schulz
Nehal, Perhaps I wasn't so clear in explaining the situation. I don't think you're going to be able to read an ext2-formatted diskette without some other software. I don't know for fact that there is software for Windows that permits it to read Linux file systems (though I'd be surprised if t

Re: Beginner- need help in understanding

2002-09-28 Thread Ashish Mehta
Hi Randall, Thanks for your prompt reply. Actually I am a more a windows oriented person. And I have not used much of unix stuff except my project work. So again thanks. Let me try it tomorrow. And I will get back to you if I have some thing new (problem) for you. Thanks Nehal

Re: Beginner- need help in understanding

2002-09-28 Thread Randall R Schulz
Nehal, This one comes under the "Cygwin is not Unix" (nor Linux) category. Cygwin does not include its own file system--it uses those of the underlying Windows operating system on which it runs. That means FAT (FAT-16 and FAT-32 as well) and under Windows NT, 2000 or XP, NTFS are generally av