Is there any windows software that will let me move files from a linux partition to a fat32 partition?

[Spoooon]

I had Redhat 8 installed on my secondary drive when my Win2k install fubared. So, I'd been using linux for a few months, have homework on it and all my mp3s. I found an old Win98 CD and decided to install that on my primary drive. It installed okay, but after that my linux install hangs when it tries to load kde. I'm a linux noob so I don't really know what to do to fix it. I looked around for programs and found a couple that sounded promising, but they don't do what I need. Any suggestions?

 

[Fencer128]

Hi,

Fat32 partitions can be mounted read + write under linux.

From command line requires editing /etc/mtab or /etc/fstab??? for mount at bootup, or using the "mount" command to do it once logged on.

Can't remember since its been a long time since I've done it!

Can someone post the how-to?

Cheers,

Andy

 

[Spoooon]

I know how to mount drives in linux, but I can't get linux to work anymore. I can't login because it automatically tries to load that login screen. I don't know enough to keep it from doing that or how to fix it.

 

[Fencer128]

Hi,

If the X11 login is causing the problem can you still ssh/telnet/rlogin into your machine from another machine? If so....

The redhat graphical login can be changed by editing the runlevel. Again I believe the file you need to edit is located in /etc/rc.d/???? (Someone please help) By doing this you can disable X11 and get back to a shell.

One last thing, your thread title is misleading. It makes it sound like you want to copy some files from linux to a fat32 partition - not that you can't get past the X11 login and need to access the shell? If you change this to "problems with X11 crashing" or something similar you might get more response.

Good luck,

Andy

 

[marat]

Originally posted by: Spoooon
I know how to mount drives in linux, but I can't get linux to work anymore. I can't login because it automatically tries to load that login screen. I don't know enough to keep it from doing that or how to fix it.

CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE will get you out of X

 

[marat]

Originally posted by: Spoooon
I know how to mount drives in linux, but I can't get linux to work anymore. I can't login because it automatically tries to load that login screen. I don't know enough to keep it from doing that or how to fix it.

http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs.htm

No way to do that for reiser though AFAIK.

 

[Spoooon]

Originally posted by: marat

Originally posted by: Spoooon
I know how to mount drives in linux, but I can't get linux to work anymore. I can't login because it automatically tries to load that login screen. I don't know enough to keep it from doing that or how to fix it.

http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs.htm

No way to do that for reiser though AFAIK.

You da man! That's exactly what I needed. Thanks.