Copying M$ files over to linux. Digital camera driver.

On Wed, 2003-12-31 at 17:51, Michael Havens wrote:

> Well, I got a digital camera for Christmas (Kodak CX6330). As gtkam does not 
> support this model as of yet I am again using the M$98 side of my system. 
> This means that I have to copy the files I download to the linux side of my 
> box; but when I try to it tells me that the file that I have dragged to the 
> Linux Desktop does not exist.
>                          ????????? WHAT ???????
> What am I doing wrong?  I tried chmod 776 hda1 but the permissions wouldn't 
> change.... on second thought it is a good thing the permissions wouldn't 
> change because if you write to a windows partition from Linux it becomes 
> unusable to M$ products. (unless one of you knows how to get around that)

>
> Well I did it! I am not sure how I did it but it is done. After all of the
> pics were in Linux chmod worked without a problem. Actually I moved
> everything via the command line.
>
> I'll do a google tomorrow when I have internet access concerning the driver
> for the camera..... unless one of you knows something of off the top of your
> head.
>
> Is there a way to change the permissions on hda1 that will not adversly affect
> the system? That way I can drag and click and not have to do things from the
> command line.
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No one is gonna know what hda1 is, is it Windows 98 partition (vfat?)

unix permissions mean nothing to files/folders on a vfat partition. They
will always show the user name belonging to the person that mounted it
(I think, I don't know that I've ever mounted vfat partitions).

If you mount the vfat volume as your username, then you should be able
to use whatever file utility you would normally use in Linux to copy the
files over to a ext2/3 partition... for example, konqueror in kde or
nautilus in gnome. If you mount the vfat as root and then launch your
gui file utility as your 'mike' login, that's where your run into
permission problems which is what I'm guessing that you did and thus
used the command line to copy the files as root and then chmod/chown the
files once the files were located on a linux partition where the
chmod/chown commands actually will work.

Craig