how to access files from other machine's old Win98 partitions?

[Brent Harding]

Yeah, ftp seems easier than trying to take it apart and not know what goes 
where, have a burner and CD ROM and 2 hard drives in there, getting the 
drive back in would be the hard part as the wires would drop inside 
somewhere.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <steve at steve-audio.net>
To: <blinux-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 12:09 PM
Subject: RE: how to access files from other machine's old Win98 partitions?


> Yes, that should work just fine. I recovered a laptop which somehow ended
> up with a bad boot sector this way some years back.
>
>
> Original Message:
> -----------------
> From: Brent Harding bharding at doorpi.net
> Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 11:16:48 -0500
> To: blinux-list at redhat.com
> Subject: how to access files from other machine's old Win98 partitions?
>
>
> I have an old box that I used to dual boot 98 and Fedora core 2 on that I
> want to format and only put Linux back on. I replaced it with my new
> machine
> awhile back and the file shares I was using to transfer files off the old
> partitions on to the new XP system went down when the power did during a
> storm awhile ago. The sharing just won't come back no matter what I try, 
> so
> I thought maybe booting it into the Linux install that is on the second
> drive might help. Would it work to mount the 2 Fat32 partitions I had on
> the
> primary drive on subdirectories under my home directory and FTP the
> directories I want down? The network card seems to come up when I booted 
> it
> with the Fedora core 2 rescue disk I had around, got the Cheapbytes set
> awhile back. Will my idea of this FTP method work, as I know the other
> machine can get on ftp sites, it should be relatively safe if I use a good
> password on the account whose home directory I mount the partitions in
> subdirectories under.
>
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