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On 11 Dec 1996 23:10:07 GMT, jsdy@cais.cais.com (Joseph S. D. Yao)
wrote:

>In article <32AEE081.18D4@erols.com>, Greg Howland  <gbh@erols.com> wrote:
>>How do you set-up Win95 so that it will recognize
>>a Linux partition, and how would I undo this setting?
>
>You don't.  MS-Wind'95 has no software that will recognize any Linux-
>native file system.
>

Yeah, but it's doable.  My programming isn't good enough, but you
could do a Win95 Installable File System to give complete support for
ext2.

SOMEWHERE, there is a little util that gives read-only pseudo access
to linux partitions.  It's in the SunSITE tree somewhere.  You need to
use special commands, but you can copy files from and traverse
directories on an ext2 partition.

>If you want to install a Linux system on an MS-Wind'95 system, you
>should first back up and re-install the Wind system.  (Supposedly, the
>version of FIPS that comes with a distribution containing Linux 2.*
>would work on an MS-Wind'95 file system; but I tend to be antsy about

There's not problem here what-so-ever!  VFAT is exactly like FAT
except for a few screwball hidden files that hold the LFN and other
stuff.  FIPS will work fine as long as you're not using some disk util
(Like Norton) that puts some kind of mirror info on the last sector of
the disk.  That's all described in the mirror info, I think.
Basically, defrag, start in DOS, blow away the mirror thing, FIPS.
Norton may have a fit the next time you start winblows, but no damage
will be done.

>trusting such things.)  Before you re-format the disk, shorten the
>MS-Wind'95 FAT partition to be (well) under 1024 cylinders long.  Then
>install MS-Wind'95 on the smaller partition, and restore all of your
>files.  DO NOT DO ANYTHING UNDER MS-WIND'95 WITH THE REST OF THE DISK.


Later,
Zac Bedell