Mounting an MS-DOS filesystem should work - I was doing that until I realised you could do VFAT. You'll just be without your long filenames.
There is a Windows 'emulator' called "WINE" for Linux but it's not 100% reliable and is still listed as a developer's-only alpha release to the best of my knowledge. I believe there is a UNIX win emulator called WAPI, but it's commercial and I don't know how much it would cost. Wahoo! My first opportunity to *give back* to this list. :) David Teague wrote: > On Thu, 24 Jun 1999, Gentleman Loser wrote: > > I got a CD with the Debian realease(a cd from the Boot Magazine's > > suplementary CD). > > I guess all in all im fine with just blazing over my hard drive > > with linux, but i really want to keep my mp3 files, text/doc/wri > > files, my webpage, and real audio files. If you could only tell > > me one thing it would be how i could carry these things over to > > linux. I don't have a cd burner to store them, and some of the > > files are bigger that a floppy. The only thing i can think of is > > keeping them on the second drive while the first drive makes the > > conversion to linux, then im hoping that in linux i can still > > access the non-linux second drive, put it's contents onto the > > first drive than convert the second drive to linux. If that can > > be done, could you expalain how? > > > > also, is there any way to still use Win95 apps in linux, i like to > > make techno music on my computer and would like to carry over my > > production music(and video games for that matter) to linux, is > > this possible?? > > > > thanks for any info you can give me, also if you can think of > > anything else usefull to a linux newbie like me, please send it. > Joshua > > If you install Debian on one drive, data on the other drive is > unlikely to be affected adversely, I suspect you have more data than > you really want to put on floppies. However, Assuming your files are > on MS DOS file system, you could use pkzip to put them on a sequence > of floppies. > > You will be able to read MS DOS, Vfat, and NT file systems from > Linux if support for these is in your kernel. The install kernels > usually have MSDOS file system support, but I don't think the will > have NT or Vfat (wind 95 32 bit fs) support. So I do not know > whether you will be able to get to your files with the kernel that > comes on your CD. > > This is a wonderful bunch of men and women who provide help on this > list. Others probably will respond with words of assistance, > encouragement, and caution. > > I wish you luck in installing and learning to use Linux. > > --David > David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely, > useful, technically accurate, and friendly. > (I'm hoping this is all of the above!) > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- -------------- Revenant [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------- "The whole principle is wrong; it's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't eat steak." - author Robert A. Heinlein on censorship.
