Re: Getting Linux to recognize Windows files.
Mount your Win98 drive as type vfat instead of msdos and you will see the
long file names.
On Mon, 23 Nov 1998, Bret Craw wrote:
> How do I get Linux to recognize the Windows files, so that I can use them.
> I have free internet access in Win98, that I can't configure for Linux. I
> pull down my files to the Windows partition. I have set up Linux to
> recognize the MSDOS partition, so that I can see what is on the hard drive.
> How do I get the files over into Linux and is there a way to get it to
> recognize the long filenames, without concatinating them? I have tried to
> do it with TKdesk, but it keeps telling me that the directory is not
> correct, even though I am looking at the file in the window. I have tried
> to copy the file, extracting the file to Linux, but nothing seems to work.
> Is there a program that may make it easier? Also, I am extremely new to
> Linux, and am more comfortable in XWindows.
>
> Bret Craw
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