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Hi!
I'm thinking of using System Commander to put Linux on my pentium.  I
understand that Linux must be on a separate partition.  Will I be able to
use it to read and write ascii files the Windows 95/DOS partition?
Thanks for the info.

Quote:> Hi!
> I'm thinking of using System Commander to put Linux on my pentium.  I
> understand that Linux must be on a separate partition.  Will I be able to
> use it to read and write ascii files the Windows 95/DOS partition?
> Thanks for the info.

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Linux can read/write to Windows 95 FAT paritions.  Be aware that some
Windows have FAT32 installed which most Linux systems to not yet support.
Do read/write FAT partitions, just modify your fstab file in you /etc
directory.  Also you need to make a directory in /mnt/.

Here is the way I added Win95 file support:

I simply added a line like this:

/dev/hda1       /mnt/dosC               vfat    rw      0 2

This worked on my system, but I don't guarentee it'll work on yours.

Good luck,
James

It surely will, and, if you apply a patch to the kernel, it will even
deal with
fat32 partitions as well.

Dan

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