Re: Debian & Win95 files... && FAT32
I also installed Debian on a machine and needed to preserve Win95
. (also AMD586) . It was a brand spanking Win95 dist. They now use FAT32
file system. Although it was very difficult to tell (no docs, no info) it
looks like I could no longer make a vfat partition under win95. I could
make an old fashioned msdos partition. Actually , it was difficult to
tell what I was making.
Debian 1.3 cannot mount a FAT32 partition. In fact kernels 2.0.x
cannot . 2.1.x with x>something can mount them. There is a patch for the
2.0.x kernels, but it took me a while to install it. The patch maker had a
different name for the source tree and a sym link to the source tree and
mixed usage of both names. Then I had to jet the cd-rom module to get the
kernel to compile (I never wrote him, so I am to blame too).
I was trying to install from stuff I'd downloaded to the win95
fat32 partition. And I couldn't . Fortunatly , I had 4 Gigs and made
another msdos partition (under window, it supported long names, but linux
only recognised it as msdos with short names; and not as vfat at all) .
Can someone make a rescue floppy with a patched kernel ?
Another thing: Fips will not split a FAT32 partition. The same
patcher has written fipsb, which will do it. However, a windows but
causes this to break the win95 installation. I backed out repeatedly by
restoring the MBR, but could never get win95 to boot except in MSDOS mode.
I checked on the web, and it seems to be related to a bug that appears
often independently of fipsb. MS has a web page on fixing it, but myself
and others tried all the fixes and they don't work. I ended up wiping out
windows and repartitoning and reinstalling.
By the way: this was my first relatively length exposure to win95.
It is really worse than I imagined. It reminds my of a $200 000 000
Hollywood movie. I always say, "If I had to spend that money, I couldn't
make a movie that bad if I tried"
On Tue, 13 Jan 1998, smorrill wrote:
> I have Win95 and Debian 1.3 on the same hard disk on my Amd 586 with
> Doc's Boot as an MBR. Being still pretty new to Linux, here's a
> question... I downloaded Netscape the other day for Linux, but had to
> use Winbloze to do it 'cause I _still_ haven't got ppp working...
> anyway, can I access the Win95 drive with Linux to retrieve Netscape?
>
> If so, how do I do that? I suppose I somehow need to set up Debian to
> recognize the Win95 partition...just not sure how to go about it & don't
> want to trash everything! (I've been known to do that!!)
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> TIA!!
>
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