Re: win95 ~ Linux

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From: Tyson Richard DOWD
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 1997 00:00

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shadow <sh@do.w> writes:

>Simon Butler wrote:
>> 
>> hey all!
>> 
>> I'm looking for a program that will allow my to read Linux partitions from
>> Win95 (on the same machine). Samba won't do it (need seperate machines)
>> 
>> any ideas would be welcome!
>> 
>> cheers,
>> Simon

>Have you tried changing the partition types in your linux partition
>config to DOS (?Type 6?) ?

There's a driver for Win95 that will read ext2fs filesystems - it was
recently advertised on comp.os.linux.announce. If you can't get it,
try dejanews. It's read-only at the moment, and has some trouble with
OSR2 win95 boxes.

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From: trd@mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Tyson Richard DOWD)
Subject: Re: win95 ~ Linux
Date: 1997/10/09
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