RE: Windows95 users

["Sharp, Lee" <Lee@PeakUSA.com>]

>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?

   When FAT32 first came out, that was the case, but vfat now supports
it fine.  I would be $10 USD I know what the problem is, however...  And
it is Microsoft. :-)

>>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 problem is probably his FTP or tgz software.  The original
Windows programming guides had no name convention for multiple dots.
Therefore software written for Win3.1 would change
XFree86-100dpi-fonts-3.3.3.1-1.i386 to
XFree86-100dpi-fonts-3_3_3_1-1.i386 and break the install.  Win95 can
handle multiple dots, and is case preserving, if not case sensitive.
Many 3rd party FTP programs and archivers are not.

>>The guy has used 35 hours of phone time to download Indy so helping
>>him is a honor case for me.

   What did he download, and what did he use to do it?  It may be
salvageable, but if he downloaded the entire distribution unpacked, all
the files would have to be renamed!  Where is he?  I could send a CD...
I feel for the poor man.

			Lee