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- From: cfs@cowpas.waffle.atl.ga.us (Charles Stephens)
- Subject: Re: Linux/DOS How do I transfer files?
- References: <1k1epqINNedh@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- Organization: COW Pastures
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 19:48:59 GMT
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- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.194859.829@cowpas.waffle.atl.ga.us>
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- ak853@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Eric Blade) writes:
- :
- : I have the Linux rootdisk/bootdisk installation. I even managed to
- : get a 60Meg DOS with a 40 meg Linux partition running. Now, how do I
- : get the files that I have on my MSDOS disks to my Linux partition? I
- : realse that MTOOLS is out there, but how do I get MTOOLS over to the DOS
- : partition?, er, the Linux partition?
-
- Well this is in the FAQ, but I will answer it for the sake of any
- other person who as not yet read the FAQ (READ IT! It will help in the
- installation process).
-
- If you are using a pretty up to date kernel (I trust .98.5 and
- higher (current as of this date is 0.99.4)), then you can mount, informing
- LINUX of new filesystem, the MS-DOS partition. Use the following:
-
- mount -t msdos /dev/hda2 msdos
-
- You should change '/dev/hda2' to the correct partition (The first
- partition on the C drive is hda1, the second is hda2, etc.) and you must
- have an empty directory named msdos (use 'mkdir msdos').
-
- That is one way. Here's another. It requires the use of rawrite.
-
- You can use rawrite to write a file to a floppy (ie mtools.taz).
- Then you can boot under LINUX and type tar zvvfx < /dev/fd0, and it will
- start reading from the first sector until the end of the file. You may
- get a message 'Broken Pipe', but ignore that.
-
- : Is there an image disk available for MTOOLS? Or a communications
- : image? My FTP access is very shaky, concerning large files (I have to
- : uuencode them and then ASCII transfer them to my DOS machine because I
- : am stuck in 7-bit mode with the host computer. Kermit only runs at
- : about 30 cps and I'm connected at 9600 baud. :) ), so the SLS release,
- : being around 10 megs for the a1-a4 disks is practically out of the
- : question. Can someone just e-mail me an image of mtools? I already have
- : a bunch of Linux programs and source code and stuff on my DOS partition,
- : I just need to figure some way to get it to the Linux partition.
-
- If you mount the partition like I told you, that should allow you
- to get started, no need to email mtools.
-
- : Please respon via email. My chances to get into the usenet groups are
- : very few and far between these days...
-
- Now you tell me. A copy is going out via email right now.
-
- : Oh.. would it be possible to null-modem connect my other computer (one
- : of them), uuencode something, then login to /dev/ttys1, and ascii upload
- : the uuencoded file to the 'cat' program? If that's a workable idea, can
- : someone send me a uuencoded image of uudecode binary for Linux? (again
- : via email)
-
- Why not find zmodem for linux.
-
- : Also, what is the status of the TCP/IP kernal for Linux? How would I
- : go about adding TCP/IP services to a v0.98 kernal? I think if I were
- : able to use TCP/IP (via slip) with Linux, it would probably be better
- : than the current connection I have with DOS... (just a terminal program,
- : no TCP/IP proto whatsoever...)
-
- READ THE FAQ!
-
- : Oh, yeah, one more question, sorry, I keep thinking of these things...
- : :)
- : I have a modem on COM4 (0x2e8, int 3)... how would I get Linux to
- : recognize it? When I boot Linux, it s ays there are only 2 com ports
- : available, and initilizes them as ttys0 and ttys1. (what happens if I
- : move my mouse, does it try and login on ttys0? *grin*) I've
- : experimented a bit with using setserial to switch ttys0 to 0x2e8/3, but
- : I have no way of measuring my success currently. :)
-
- Get the .99 version of the kernel.
-
- --
- Charles Stephens
- cfs@cowpas.waffle.atl.ga.us
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