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

Rick Stevens rstevens at vitalstream.com
Mon May 10 21:42:18 UTC 2004


Taylor, ForrestX wrote:
> 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.

Or get a pre-compiled binary from

	http://www.rhil.net/kernelstuff/modules.html
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