Windows partition

[Jeff Vian]

Norman LeCouvie wrote:

> Is that hard?
>
> I am a windows guy and trying to make a go of this. Had our Sun JDS 
> working for a while but have found fedora mush nicer and it recognized 
> almost all of my hardware
>
> thanks,
>
> norman
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> ne... wrote:
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>> On Jun 23, 2004 at 16:50, Norman LeCouvie in a soothing rage wrote:
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>>> ne... wrote:
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>>>> On Jun 23, 2004 at 07:39, Norman LeCouvie in a soothing rage wrote:
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>>>>> How can I see the files on my windows partition?
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>>>> Create a mount point for the partition. If it is one
>>>> of the FAT types, mount it using vfat. If it is ntfs,
>>>> head over to http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/ and
>>>> get the ntfs module. Install it and mount the with
>>>> ntfs. If you want to make this more permanent, add
>>>> an entry to /etc/fstab.
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>>> HI,
>>>
>>> thanks for the support. I got the RPM but here is my issue.
>>>
>>> To get my Linuxant wireless driver to work I had to install an rpm 
>>> that created 8kstacks and that is now the kernel. I have an option 
>>> when I boot to load either the original kernel or the 8kstack 
>>> kernel. If I load the original, I can see the windows file system, 
>>> when I load the other I cannot as it tells me that
>>> mount: fs type ntfs not supported by kernel
>>>
>>> any suggestions?
>>>   
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>> Each kernel has to be compiled with the ntfs module. From
>> what you have written, your 8k stack kernel does not have
>> the ntfs module compiled. You will need to recompile the
>> kernel module for that.
>>
>> N.Emile...
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Hey  N.Emile

There is an ntfs module.  Compiling is not required.  The archives have 
had a lot of discussion recently and a quick search gives

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-February/msg03257.html



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