David Stern wrote: > > On Mon, 23 Nov 1998 09:36:56 PST, Bret Craw wrote: > > How do I get Linux to recognize the Windows files, so that I can use them. > > I have free internet access in Win98, that I can't configure for Linux. I > > pull down my files to the Windows partition. I have set up Linux to > > recognize the MSDOS partition, so that I can see what is on the hard drive. > > How do I get the files over into Linux and is there a way to get it to > > recognize the long filenames, without concatinating them? I have tried to > > do it with TKdesk, but it keeps telling me that the directory is not > > correct, even though I am looking at the file in the window. I have tried > > to copy the file, extracting the file to Linux, but nothing seems to work. > > Is there a program that may make it easier? Also, I am extremely new to > > Linux, and am more comfortable in XWindows. > > > > Bret Craw > > Maintenance Renewal > > Presumably you're mounting the win partitions as type dos or msdos? > Try using vfat, it works for my winNT partition, and it used to work > for my old win95 partition. I'm not sure about win98. Also, your > kernel will have to support these fs types, so if it doesn't work, > reconfigure and recompile your kernel. For a listing of fs types man > mount. >
Just in case you need to know, you're most likely trying to mount the files either manually or in /etc/fstab. So the change to vfat that David mentions needs to go either in your manual mount command or in the /etc/fstab file. You may have already known this, but when I was starting out I wouldn't have, so I thought I'd pass it on. If you make the change in /etc/fstab, you'll then need to run the command: mount /a to mount all the things listed in that file. (You'll probably need to umount (unmount) the existing DOS partition first.) > The win files will be owned by root, so you won't be able to write to > them as a regular user. Although I'm sure there are ways to directly > edit your win files as user, I prefer to need to become root so that I > don't accidentally overwrite the original win file, and instead just > edit local copies as user, then become root to copy them back. You > should be able to copy from dos to local partition as a regular user, > then as root chown the files to user.user if you want to save changes > to them as user. > > $ su > Password: > # mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/dos > # exit > $ cp /mnt/dos/winfile.txt . <--- Note "." means "to right here" > $ su > Password: > # chown dstern.dstern file.txt > # exit > $ edit file.txt > $ su > Password: > # cp file.txt /mnt/dos/winnt/profiles/dstern/personal/ > # exit > > HTH, > -- > David > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
