Re: Transferring files between a windows machine and a Debian Li
On 11-Aug-2000 USM Bish wrote:
> 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.
Well, I don't know. Just look:
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lehel@jungle:~$ grep win_1 /etc/fstab
/dev/hda1 /win_1 vfat gid=1001,umask=007,noexec,quiet 0 2
lehel@jungle:~$ ls -F /win_1
Jdk/ artec/ command.com home/ mix_95/ temp/
My Documents/ autoexec.bat config.sys io.sys msdos.sys util/
Office51/ autoexec.emu djgpp/ linux/ nc/ win386.swp
Program Files/ bc/ drivers/ logo.sys rcs/ windows/
Wincmd/ bp/ games/ mirc/ recycled/ winmcad/
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Now there are *definitely* some long filenames...
Or maybe I misunderstood something ?
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