[thelist] Linux Port to Home - Solved

> Luther, Ron writes:
>  > Went out for a smoke and figured out how to move the files ...
> from NT to
>  > Linux ...
>  > If anyone else is in a similar bind ... I think the following
> will work:
>  >
>  > (1)	Download the file in question on your NT box at work.
>  > (2)	Split the file into 'bite sized pieces'.
>  > (3)	Port home on a zillion floppies. (Gad!.... How droll!)
>  > (4)	Recombine IN WINDOWS!
>  > (5)	Burn to a cd.
>  > (6)	Reboot in Linux.
>  > (7)	Load off the cd.
>
> not that this is much better, but could you use winzip to zip the
> file up on multiple floppies (waiting patiently while it tries to
> further compress a compressed archive - be nice if there  was a
> tar utility for windows...), then use unzip in linux to get the
> file off the floppies? It would at least eliminate the recombine
> in windows and burn to cd steps.
>

Even better than that... as long as at least one of your windows partitions
is FAT16 / FAT32 (not NTFS), you can:

...
(4) Recombine on the FAT partition in windows
(5) Reboot in Linux
(6) Work out which device number corresponds to your Windows partition. Try
running fdisk from the linux command line - the command 'p' will get you a
list of partitions on the current disk, and 'q' will quit without totalling
your disk. :)
(7) type "mkdir /windowsdrive"
(8) type "mount -t vfat /dev/hda3 /windowsdrive" (replace /dev/hda3 with
whatever fdisk showed your Windows partition to be registered as)
(9) you now have a linux directory off the root called windowsdrive, which
contains the entire contents of your Windows partition...

...it is well worth getting used to mounting your windows partitions - it
makes sharing files between the two OSes a *lot* easier once you're used to
it - and should save you on a few CD-Rs... :)



The above *is* theoretically possible with NTFS, but the capability doesn't
generally come built-in to the kernel, and I've always found it a real pain
to get it to work.