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[Lee]

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.