On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 15:24 -0400, Loren Lockwood wrote:
Hi all. I'm very new at Linux. Have tried a couple of distros and like FC3 best so far. Some problems exist, though. I have dual boot with Win2K using NTFS. FC3 can't see that partition. Bumming around on the net I found out that seeing NTFS is an option which is turned off by default in the kernel of this distro. To turn it on, they say I have to recompile the kernel. That seems scary to me, but I found a site with very extensive instructions and decided to try it. But first I need the kernel source code. Where do I find that? I poked around in Red Hat's site, also Fedora's, but didn't find anything.
Also, does this mean that every time a new kernel is issued I'll have to go through the same procedure? Isn't there some way to get this option turned on by default?
You do not need to compile. A module is available at http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/rpm/
install it and you will be on the way.
NOTE: NTFS support is read-only in Linux. If you want to share files between the 2 OSes then you want to create a vfat partition and use that for the shared data since both OSes can read/write to a Win98 filesystem.
Your help would be greatly appreciated.
BTW, I have read through a couple hundred emails from this list and not found any other references to this problem. Can it be that nobody else needs NTFS access from FC3? Is that why it's turned off by default? I still need W2K for certain jobs, although I hope that the number of such jobs will approach zero as time goes by.
Thanks. -Loren