> I need to pass things back-and-forth between Linux and Windoze. I > see references to VFAT FS on the web site, but for the life of me, I > can't find a trace of the software. It's really bad to have to play > games with tar at both sides of the route in order not to munge up the > "magic" pathnames. PLEASE don't tell me that the evil beast of Redmond > has buried VFAT under a patent claim!! If not, please, where can I find > it?
When I installed "woody" from the CDs, during the partitioning and mounting process of the first part of the install, the install found the Windows partitions. It was then possible to identify them as VFAT file systems during the next phase of the install, and the install then generated the correct mtab or fstab or whatever it is this week entries for them and I had access to my Gatesware "drives" the outset. (I was impressed.) I still haven't figured out how to make the Linux data visible from within Windoze, other than scribbling files from Linux onto one of the VFAT-mounted drives. > > Right now, I've managed to hork up my package data so dpkg gets hung > up trying to fix things. My best bet seems to be to restart from > scratch. How do I get dpkg / apt / aptitude to clean my machine > totally, or what files should I remove to make all this stuff go away? > Or, would it really be quicker to re-init my partitions and start again > from the CD? I am the next-to-the-last person on this list to be capable of commenting on this. But, I ended up in a similar situation (read my postings for the agonizing details), and my experience was that "dpkg" was too low-level and "apt-get" too limited to help (someone on here commented that it was originally just an experimental implementation which got out of control...) BUT... *dselect* rescued my system. I went through the 6-or-7-step program with it and it was able to compute the correct reload from CD-ROM (using the "apt-get" method - you do have a correct "sources.list" file with your CD-ROM entries in it, that got generated when you did the install, right?). (Warning: You will *hate* dselect, if you try it.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
