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>4. Using Your New System</A
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>Linux can mount, read, and write to Window 95™'s VFAT partitions serveral ways.
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You can use the stock msdos filesystem support that has been included in
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all kernels greater than 1.0. However, using commands like:</P
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>litterbox~#: mount -t msdos /dev/hda1 /mnt</PRE
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>will only get you as far as filenames with the 8.3 standard. Yick! You have
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Windows 95™ so you can use those nifty long file names.</P
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>Some Linux users still run kernels that are ancient by Linux standards (1.2.xx).
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There is a module for this series of
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kernels so that you can read files that do not conform to the old 8.3
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standard. If this is the situation you are in, FTP to <A
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HREF="ftp://mm-ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/multimedia/linux/xmsdos/"
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TARGET="_top"
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>ftp://mm-ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/multimedia/linux/xmsdos/</A
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and pick up a copy of README before doing anything.</P
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>Kernels after 1.3.4x have internal VFAT support that you can compile in. These kernels allow
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safe read/writes to your VFAT partitions.
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>NOTE: A Word of Caution!: </B
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> If you are running a later version of Windows 95™ or Windows 98™ (i.e.,
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possibly one that ships on computers made after June 1996 as well as the
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P5-MMX series), please complete the following:</P
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>Check to see what version of Windows 95™ you are really running. To do this, open
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up a DOS box and type <TABLE
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>ver /r</PRE
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> Sample output is listed below:</P
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>C:\> ver /r
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Mircosoft Windows 95 [4.00.1034]
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(C) 1981-1996 Microsoft Corporation.</PRE
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>Note the minor revision number. If the number is GREATER than 950 you may
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be running a version of the FAT partition type known as FAT32. If that is
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the case, you can still use Linux and Windows 95™</P
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>However, just because you are running a newer version of Windows 95™ doesn't mean that you
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are running FAT32. Load <SPAN
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information" option to show if you are using FAT32.</P
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>4.1. Installing on a Drive with FAT32</A
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>If you are installing Linux onto a drive with FAT32, follow the same steps as you would for installing Linux onto a Windows 95™ system. However, because <SPAN
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