Re: Can't burn, can't copy...now what?

From: Terry Nicholls (In2Blues) (notmyreal_at_address.com)
Date: 09/01/04


Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 10:23:35 -0400

On August 31, 2004 9:34 am Dave happily informed us all:

>
> "Terry Nicholls (In2Blues)" <notmyreal@address.com> wrote in message
> news:HwMYc.12951$0c.8248@read1.cgocable.net...
>> Here's my dilemma. I have some files that I downloaded while testing
>> SUSE 9.1 Personal (which, BTW, is about to be the *only* OS on my
>> computer). However, since K2B won't burn properly (I'm told it's a kernel
>> problem)
> and
>> the files are too big to FTP to my website, I need to transfer them
>> somewhere else.
>>
>> I have WinXP installed, but Linux won't write to it. I have a Win98
>> partition, but Linux won't write to it. WinXP I understand. But Win98?
> I
>> have rooted (is that proper usage?) and used chmod to set Win98 to read
> and
>> write. I even used chown and chgrp to be sure. They're set properly,
>> but
>> Linux won't let me write to Win98. WinXP will, but that doesn't help me,
>> since the files are on the Linux partition.
>>
>> Any ideas why this isn't working?
>>
>> --
>>
>> Terry Nicholls (In2Blues)
>>
>
> The other replies have probably solved your problems, but in terms of
> transfering data from your Linux partition to your windows XP partition
> the answer is to read the data in XP using one of the tools available
> 'ext2fsd' if you are using ext2 or ext3, 'rfstool' or 'rfsgui' if use are
> using SuSE's default ReiserFS.

I was told writing to XP was "experimental". Are these tools safe to use in
that regard?

-- 
Terry Nicholls (In2Blues)


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