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- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Path: sparky!uunet!van-bc!stewart
- From: stewart@wimsey.bc.ca (Jim Stewart)
- Subject: Re: How do you install programs?
- Organization: Wimsey
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 03:53:50 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.035350.4961@wimsey.bc.ca>
- References: <1992Aug30.031010.12106@eskimo.celestial.com> <1992Aug30.152738.20697@utstat.uucp> <QecDEIS00WAJEDSlB4@andrew.cmu.edu>
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- In article <QecDEIS00WAJEDSlB4@andrew.cmu.edu> geek+@CMU.EDU (Brian E. Gallew) writes:
- >Rafal writes:
- >>PS2: Install mtools as soon as possible. ;)
- >Since linux now supports the dos fs, what *possible* use is mtools?
- >
- Linux 0.97.1 mounts my dos filesystem on /dev/hda1 fine. I can get directory
- listings and can copy FROM the dos filesystem fine. When I copy TO the
- dos filesystem, the cp (from root0.97.1) grinds away then comes back and
- tells me that the device is full... when I have to reboot dos (a more and
- more infrequent event) I get to CHKDSK /F a bunch, and chkdsk reports that
- every cluster I had left in the dos partition is "lost" ... I don't know if
- this is cp or the filesystem code, and I have not yet tried it under 0.97.2
- (my current system) but I think I will keep mtools around for a while :-)
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- js who_is_a_belt_and_suspenders_kind_of_guy_anyway
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