On Sun, 26 Jan 2003, David Rosenthal wrote: > (Newbie in need of instruction) > > I am trying to copy my existing windows partition into my linux partition. > I did read the HOWTOs, Readme, and Manual to figure out how to do this but I > do not seem to be able to do this. If somone would like to help that would > be great. > I just need basic step by step instructions talored to my ignorance of this > usefull operating system. I have SuSE 8.0. > > > -Drozen- > > > > If windows is on the first primary partion of the first hard disk, and fat or fat32 (win9x or winMe), then from a root xterm window: # cd / # mkdir /<your-choice> # mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /<your-choice> # cp -iR /<your-choice>/<source-dir-or-file> /<destination-dir>/ should work. _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@winehq.com http://www.winehq.com/mailman/listinfo/wine-users