Re: heres my noob install questions, smart people please help
On Sat, 08 Nov 2003 02:22, Hoyt Bailey wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "ScruLoose" <scruloose+debuser@eastlink.ca>
> To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 21:47
> Subject: Re: heres my noob install questions, smart people please help
>
> In linux or windows I dont qualify as smart but I have some experience with
> this subject. I think you are under some misconception about whats
> happening. I had a windows system and a RH system on the same disk. The
> RH system auto mounted the windows at /mnt/windows so I had access to all
> of the windows files it was easy to transfer xxx to RH by cp xxx xxx. I
> was mostly using gimp on the RH but could not think of a way to transfer
> from RH to windows except via floppy. Consider the following when windows
> is mounted on the linux system it is just a file on a directory
> (mnt/windows) windows isnt running! Should you write a file to
> /mnt/windows there is nothing to check for free space,
Surely the Linux that you're running will check for free space if you write
to a FAT32 partition?
> nothing to register
> the file as far as windows is concerned the file dosent exist but you have
> corrupted the system by overwriting files that it knows about. What would
> happen ? Who knows!
Hmmm... I have a Lose98 partition on my box... maybe I'll just copy a
couple of files to it and see what happens when I boot w98 again....
(Btw, DOS doesn't care if I do that. Nor is DOS nearly so paranoid about
where it boots from. A far superior OS to Windows, is DOS 8)
cr
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