Entry

how can i view linux files from win98 and vice versa?

Aug 28th, 2003 00:20
Tjerk Valentijn, sreenath nathan,

I asume you mean a dual boot situation?

Linux can 'see' Windows fat, and fat32 filesystems and on some linux
distribution also ntfs filesystems. make a directory for your windows c
disk for example in your linux /mnt/ dir, like:

mkdir /mnt/c

Then mount the c disk (in my case the fist partition on first disk, so hda1)

mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/c

Then view the files

cd /mnt/c/
ll

See /etc/fstab to set this onboot.

Windows 98 can not 'see' native linux filesystems: ext2 and ext3. Once
you mounted your windows partition in linux, you can place shared files
in that partition so both operating systems can work with them.

Hope this helpes....