From: Karl Tipple (krt@odetics.com)
Date: Wed Jun 30 1999 - 18:24:04 CEST
Brian:
Indeed, LINUX and FAT32 are mutually incompatible. I don't
think this is any accident - in view of what has been brought
to light about Microsoft's marketing practices. What better way
to keep everybody stuck with using their stuff exclusively than
to make anyone else's stuff crash your system???
Again, my CAPS are NOT YELLING, they're BOLD lettering.
Now, with the release of Red Hat 6.0 and Caldera Open
LINUX 2.2, THOSE LINUXes DO have some sort of utilities
for reading FAT 32 files - but I don't know if that means
that those versions can now coexist with FAT 32 partitions
on the same system or not. I need to find this out, because
I ultimately want to put Win98 and LINUX on the same system
and use a boot manager to select them at boot-up. I may
simply keep to partitions of <2GB and go FAT16 to be safe.
One would merely need to keep .doc files and other non-executables
in another EXTENDED partition, thus keeping the primary (or native)
partitions free for keeping the OS and executables.
Previously, FAT 32 and LINUX could NOT coexist well on the
same box - EVEN on separate drives! Attempting to do this
could render BOTH operating systems UNBOOTABLE!
Hope this helps you and your other pen pal.
Keep in touch - did you get my last email yesterday??
Sincerely,
Karl
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ripcrd6 [mailto:ripcrd6@worldinter.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 1999 8:26 PM
> To: mulinux@sunsite.auc.dk
> Subject: Re: mulinux-6r4.tgz un-tar problem?
>
>
> I had this problem and I think I might have a FAT32 file
> system which would
> keep muLinux from working. I got the dosutilities to un-tar
> with Winzip
> 7.0, but then the system hung on the install.bat from DOS.
> Brian
>
> Andreas Laudwein <laudwein@alpha.fh-furtwangen.de>wrote:
>
> >
> > > On Mon, Jun 28, 1999 at 10:07:10PM +0100, David Lloyd wrote:
> > > > Could someone please tell me why my mulinux-6r4.tgz
> file will not
> > > > un-tar? I have downloaded it via FTP from a Unix
> machine, from two
> > > > different Windows 95 machines (Netscape 4, right
> clicking on the file,
> > > > Save link as etc...) and from different servers. I
> appear to have all
> of
> > > > the file, but it won't un-tar. The install batch file
> from the dos
> utils
> > > > (which downloaded fine) will not work properly as a
> result as it will
> > > > not un-tar the file, and doing it manually dosn't work either.
> >
> > I encountered the same problem, no chance to un-tar it, I
> tried Winzip,
> > tar on both DOS an RedHat Linux.
> >
> > I know it sounds weird but try to download it via InternetExploder.
> > I regret to admit that it worked fine in my particular
> case... *sigh*
> >
> > Laudi
> >
> >
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