Mounting partition on dual-boot machine [was: Re: Mounting aWindows XP Shared Folder]

Taylor, ForrestX forrestx.taylor at intel.com
Mon May 10 20:19:57 UTC 2004


On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 02:41, John Lagrue wrote:
> >fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>Thank you Forrest, I'll try that command when I return
> >>to the Linux side of my dual boot machine.
> >>
> >>Mac
> >>
> >>--- "Taylor, ForrestX" <forrestx.taylor at intel.com>
> >>wrote:
> >>    
> >>
> >>>On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 11:23, Mac wrote:
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>>>Is there somewhere this information is listed on the
> >>>>net and can it be used to share a folder on a dual
> >>>>boot machine.  I still don't understand how 'wine'
> >>>>works would this be helpful?
> >>>>        
> >>>>
> >>>Do you mean that you want to mount your Windows
> >>>partition in Linux on a
> >>>dual boot machine?  Is the partition FAT32 or NTFS? Try these
> >>>commands as root:
> >>>
> >>>mkdir /mnt/windows
> >>>mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows
> >>>
> >>>Forrest
> >
> That only gives me the following:
>     mount: fs type ntfs not supported by kernel

You need to download and install the kernel-ntfs rpm from:
http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/rpm/index.html

It should be fairly straight forward, but if you run into trouble,
repost here.

Forrest
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