Coolness, I'll try that, thanks! - Jay.
~-----Original Message----- ~From: David B Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 12:58 PM ~To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org ~Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~Subject: Re: SAMBA ~ ~ ~(Please respond to debian-laptop@lists.debian.org, not privately :) ~ ~On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 09:59:16 -0800 ~Jay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ~> Thanks for replying. ~> ~> It's a Sharp Mebius laptop with a 2.1Gb HD, FAT Windows 98 partition. ~> And Debian Potato Linux on the other. ~> ~> The thing is that the floppy and CD drives are out, and all ~I have is a ~> USB CDRW which I want to use to fix the windows partition ~(system files ~> are messed up, can't load windows), so I can backup what I ~have there. ~> ~> Is this possible? Or will I have to move the HD to a better suited ~> laptop? ~ ~Okay, you don't want to use Samba for this. Unless you've compiled the ~kernel yourself and specifically omitted support for it, you can access ~the FAT filesystem natively in Linux: ~ ~[ [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ~/ ]# modprobe vfat ~[ [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ~/ ]# mount /dev/hda1 /mnt ~ ~Where /dev/hda1 is your FAT partition. It'll be mounted, ~unsurprisingly, ~under /mnt; just use it like you'd use a regular Linux ~filesystem (though ~some things like ownership, file modes, etc., won't work). ~
