moving to linux

[Ron Watson]

Maxim Eremeev wrote:

> Ron Watson wrote:
>
>> I just installed fedora 2, the fedora 3 anaconda would crash when it 
>> looked at my
>> partitions, put in 2.6.9, then updated last night to 2.6.10.... I 
>> have fat32 and ntfs
>> partitions, w98 and w2k installed but oopsie, i told it to put the 
>> boot loader on
>> main disk and w2k won't load. tried to mount them and doesn't know 
>> about ntfs.
>> How do I add ntfs support to kernel or restore the windoze boot 
>> loader to "C:"?
>>
> Well, it is relatively easy to restore the Win2K boot loader. You just 
> need its installation disc, then you boot from it into recovery 
> console and
> fixboot
> fixmbr
> should do the trick.
> However then you will need to reinstall your grub through recovery 
> disc, and I suggest you to search through the posts here as the 
> problem of dual (and even triple) boot was discussed several times.
> Good luck,
> Maxim.
>
Thanks, will make a recovery disk, test it, try to get w2k back up, get 
linux back up.
As for ntfs support... went to /boot/config-2.6.10-1.9_FC2 and it says 
auto generated...
auto generated by what? Noticed it does not set ntfs support, e.g.

# CONFIG_NTFS_FS is not set

so is it "safe" to add

CONFIG_NTFS_FS=y

to the config file, will it just get overwritten at next boot, or what?

Ron;

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