[thelist] 2 Linux Questions

At 15:02 30.05.00 -0400, you wrote:
>  [You split up say a 5Mb mp3 file into five 1mb files plus a small
>"rejoin.bat" that you run from dos to put the other files back together.
>Take them all home on floppies and avoid hours of slow home download time!]
>But is it going to work to port things home to Linux?  Example: I downloaded
>the 70Mb "Star Office for Linux" utility from Sun Microsystems at work this
>morning (tar file).  How the heck do I get it home?

Well, I wouldn't transfer a file that large on floppies, however, if it has 
to be done this way....

I have set up a Mac at home with dual boot LinuxPPC/MacOS. To transfer 
files between systems, I usually mount a small Mac (HFS) partition read 
only under Linux and copy the files from there to the place they belong. 
"read only" serves two purposes: 1. I 'm (quite) sure Linux doesn't mess up 
the HFS, 2. I always have an archive folder of all the packages, tar'ed 
sources etc. I ever did download. Any rejoining of splitted-up archives is 
done on the Mac side (actually, the Mac side has the AppleTalk / Ethernet 
connection to my SO's PowerBook bringing home those precious big files from 
work, and I don't intend to make Linux speak AppleTalk over Ethernet in the 
near future. Maybe it's possible.)

I don't know whether, but am quite sure that, Linux can mount Windows 
partitions. Check in the Howto's and FAQ's for your distribution for hints 
how to do this (man mount is helpful, too). If it's possible on a Mac, I'm 
sure it works on a Win box as well.

Be sure to download the files as binary/source - not as "text". Have fun :-)

hth

Sonja




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Sonja Krause-Harder --- Web Development
Kabel New Media GmbH, Hamburg
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