> Somehow mount the DOS partition and read files from there? Yep :) mkdir /mnt/msdos mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/msdos > Format a disk so Linux will read it, and copy the files from DOS to there? Yep :) mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /floppy vfat is the Windows9x long-filename support ... you can also use 'msdos' if 8.3 filenames are enough =) Regards, Gavin.