At 10:16 AM 3/1/99 -0600, Keith Saxon wrote: >I'm trying to install .deb files from a DOS partition. > > >I have /hda1 (linux primary), /hda2 (linux swap), /hda3 (ms-dos primary).
Does it work to define /hda3 as vfat rather than msdos? If vfat isn't in your kernel, you can mount it after you login. This will give you full filenames rather than 8.3 names.