[olug] Corel Linux installation Questions

Eric Penne epenne at yahoo.com
Tue Sep 18 18:00:14 UTC 2001


http://www.linuxdoc.org for documentation on linux or the
http://www.olug.org/LDP mirror for the same information

> 1. Toward the bottom of page 15 the authors claim "Corel Linux lets
> you 
> read and write to files in folders set up by Windows programs."
> 
>  OK.  That's GREAT!  That capability is a major requirement for the
> project 
> I am working on.  I have now spent several days' time searching help
> files 
> and existing documentation to learn how to do this, with no results. 
> So, 
> can anyone tell me where this is documented?  Or could someone just
> simply 
> tell me how to do it?

mount the partition using msdos or vfat as the type.  There is
definitely a HOWTO at linuxdoc.org
Also, the NTFS support (ie win2k and winNT) is very experimental and
does not work correctly so hopefully the project only needs fat16 or
fat32 capability.



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