Re: Windows95 users

["Scott D. Boyd" <sdboyd@fastlane.net>]

Last October, I installed a RedHat 5.1 distro. that I got from
LinuxCentral.com. Since Linux on the boot floppy wouldn't recognize my IDE
CD-ROM, I had to copy all the RPMs onto my Win95 partition. I had no
problems with filename mangling. 

What the differnce *may* be: I have the original Win95, with only the first
service update and the FAT16 filesystem. Someone having problems with
filename mangling in this curcumstance might possibly have Win95 or Win98
along with the second service update, with the FAT32 file system. I *think*
I remember seeing something last fall about Linux having problems reading
the DOS-FAT32 system. Can anyone verify this?

Scott

At 12:32 AM 3/30/99 -0000, you wrote:
>
>Due to the fact wwe are not on CD I assumed people trying Indy 0.1
>would have Linux.  That is why the Install is in tgz format instead of
>Zip.
>
>But to my surprise there are people trying Indy without previous Unix
>experience (and without an ext2 partition) so they store the distrib
>in their Win95 partitions.  Someone is complaining to me about name
>mangling.  Did anyone in that list install a RedHat clone from a Win95
>partition?  What problems did you have?
>
>The guy has used 35 hours of phone time to download Indy so helping
>him is a honor case for me.
>
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