Re: Mounting Dos Partition on Bootup

Re: Mounting Dos Partition on Bootup

[Tony Baechler]

Hi.  You probably got tons of answers but here goes anyway.  The short 
answer is to read the man page on /etc/fstab and make sure to use fat32 for 
Win 9x, otherwise long filenames will not show up.  If you are using 
Slackware, you are prompted for this during installation and it sets things 
up automatically.  The way I did it was to make a directory called /win.  I 
had subdirectories for all my drives under /win, like /win/c, /win/d, 
etc.  I had to fiddle with /etc/fstab a few times before I got it right and 
found the syntax confusing, but it was great once it worked.

installing inux was re: RE: Mounting Dos Partition on Bootup

[Michael Malver]

I want to run linux on my  drive, which already has windows on it.  I had
trouble getting it to recognise my win95 filenames because I used the
zipslack install, and didn't understand how to edit stuff.  Is there a way
to do a talking install of linux so I will be prompted for everything, and
configured properly, but without repartitioning my drive?
I guess what I'm asking is is there a way to unzip zipslack, but ten somehow
run the linux install program, so that it will re set itself up and allow me
to taylor it to my system, but not make me change anything about the way my
system currently behaves?
I hope this questin makes sense.


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[mailto:blinux-list-admin@redhat.com]On Behalf Of Tony Baechler
Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2001 12:46 AM
To: blinux-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: Mounting Dos Partition on Bootup


Hi.  You probably got tons of answers but here goes anyway.  The short
answer is to read the man page on /etc/fstab and make sure to use fat32 for
Win 9x, otherwise long filenames will not show up.  If you are using
Slackware, you are prompted for this during installation and it sets things
up automatically.  The way I did it was to make a directory called /win.  I
had subdirectories for all my drives under /win, like /win/c, /win/d,
etc.  I had to fiddle with /etc/fstab a few times before I got it right and
found the syntax confusing, but it was great once it worked.



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RE: installing inux was re: RE: Mounting Dos Partition on Bootup

[Georgina]

Hi

If I understand you correctly, no you can't run the installation program in
the same way as if you were to do a complete install.  But hold on, what is
it you want to do?  You want to see your long filenames that have been
produced under Windows?  What for?  What are your expectations?  You'd be
better off in spending some time reading up on how to use one of the many
editors.  Now everyone has their favourite and I can't remember which ones
you have in ZipSpeak.  If your goal is to use any Unix type systems, you'd
better look at one of the vi clones, such as, vim and Elvis.  There's an
excellent tutorial on the vi home page.  Emacs is very popular and there are
a couple of versions of this one too, such as, memacs.  Again there's a
tutorial that is easy to follow.  Emacs has the advantage in that you could
use it as a speech option as in emacspeak.  Pico and Joe are little editors
which are similar to Edit and Word Star Windows editors.  Having said which,
none of these will be useful to edit Word Processed documents that have been
produced under Windows.  But you'll need to be able to edit scripts and
profiles etc.  It's what using Linux is all about, being able to tune the
system to meet your needs.

HTH
-----Original Message-----
From: blinux-list-admin@redhat.com
[mailto:blinux-list-admin@redhat.com]On Behalf Of Michael Malver
Sent: 15 December 2001 15:39
To: blinux-list@redhat.com
Subject: installing inux was re: RE: Mounting Dos Partition on Bootup


I want to run linux on my  drive, which already has windows on it.  I had
trouble getting it to recognise my win95 filenames because I used the
zipslack install, and didn't understand how to edit stuff.  Is there a way
to do a talking install of linux so I will be prompted for everything, and
configured properly, but without repartitioning my drive?
I guess what I'm asking is is there a way to unzip zipslack, but ten somehow
run the linux install program, so that it will re set itself up and allow me
to taylor it to my system, but not make me change anything about the way my
system currently behaves?
I hope this questin makes sense.


-----Original Message-----
From: blinux-list-admin@redhat.com
[mailto:blinux-list-admin@redhat.com]On Behalf Of Tony Baechler
Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2001 12:46 AM
To: blinux-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: Mounting Dos Partition on Bootup


Hi.  You probably got tons of answers but here goes anyway.  The short
answer is to read the man page on /etc/fstab and make sure to use fat32 for
Win 9x, otherwise long filenames will not show up.  If you are using
Slackware, you are prompted for this during installation and it sets things
up automatically.  The way I did it was to make a directory called /win.  I
had subdirectories for all my drives under /win, like /win/c, /win/d,
etc.  I had to fiddle with /etc/fstab a few times before I got it right and
found the syntax confusing, but it was great once it worked.



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RE: installing inux was re: RE: Mounting Dos Partition on Bootup

[Lloyd G. Rasmussen]

And don't forget NANO, a new editor a lot like PICO.  But as for me, I
often use UltraEdit to edit stuff in my Cygwin directories.

At 01:14 PM 12/16/01 -0000, you wrote:
>Hi
>
>If I understand you correctly, no you can't run the installation program in
>the same way as if you were to do a complete install.  But hold on, what is
>it you want to do?  You want to see your long filenames that have been
>produced under Windows?  What for?  What are your expectations?  You'd be
>better off in spending some time reading up on how to use one of the many
>editors.  Now everyone has their favourite and I can't remember which ones
>you have in ZipSpeak.  If your goal is to use any Unix type systems, you'd
>better look at one of the vi clones, such as, vim and Elvis.  There's an
>excellent tutorial on the vi home page.  Emacs is very popular and there are
>a couple of versions of this one too, such as, memacs.  Again there's a
>tutorial that is easy to follow.  Emacs has the advantage in that you could
>use it as a speech option as in emacspeak.  Pico and Joe are little editors
>which are similar to Edit and Word Star Windows editors.  Having said which,
>none of these will be useful to edit Word Processed documents that have been
>produced under Windows.  But you'll need to be able to edit scripts and
>profiles etc.  It's what using Linux is all about, being able to tune the
>system to meet your needs.
>
>HTH
>-----Original Message-----
>From: blinux-list-admin@redhat.com
>[mailto:blinux-list-admin@redhat.com]On Behalf Of Michael Malver
>Sent: 15 December 2001 15:39
>To: blinux-list@redhat.com
>Subject: installing inux was re: RE: Mounting Dos Partition on Bootup
>
>
>I want to run linux on my  drive, which already has windows on it.  I had
>trouble getting it to recognise my win95 filenames because I used the
>zipslack install, and didn't understand how to edit stuff.  Is there a way
>to do a talking install of linux so I will be prompted for everything, and
>configured properly, but without repartitioning my drive?
>I guess what I'm asking is is there a way to unzip zipslack, but ten somehow
>run the linux install program, so that it will re set itself up and allow me
>to taylor it to my system, but not make me change anything about the way my
>system currently behaves?
>I hope this questin makes sense.
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: blinux-list-admin@redhat.com
>[mailto:blinux-list-admin@redhat.com]On Behalf Of Tony Baechler
>Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2001 12:46 AM
>To: blinux-list@redhat.com
>Subject: Re: Mounting Dos Partition on Bootup
>
>
>Hi.  You probably got tons of answers but here goes anyway.  The short
>answer is to read the man page on /etc/fstab and make sure to use fat32 for
>Win 9x, otherwise long filenames will not show up.  If you are using
>Slackware, you are prompted for this during installation and it sets things
>up automatically.  The way I did it was to make a directory called /win.  I
>had subdirectories for all my drives under /win, like /win/c, /win/d,
>etc.  I had to fiddle with /etc/fstab a few times before I got it right and
>found the syntax confusing, but it was great once it worked.

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