I had WinXP(NTFS) on my hd, I put in a second drive and installed rh9. i think i made the linux drive the master and win drive the slave. i want linux to automatically mount the second drive (NTFS) permanently, i've looked at other threads and just can't find anything exactly like my problem or anything that i can figure out how to adapt to my problem.

(a side question - why when i was trying to make this work did the drive i made in /mnt continuously disappear every time i restarted my computer)

please help, thanks

i'm a and i am stumped

you need to add an entry to your /etc/fstab that looks something like

/dev/windows_partition /mnt/windows ntfs ro 0 0

have a look in the rute users guide or something similar for mounting filesystems, this should exlpain /etc/fstab and answer your side question.

You will need to download and install the NTFS support RPM.
http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/

For more information on the setup, take a look at these threads.
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...threadid=80289
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...threadid=86951

Note:
NTFS support is Read-Only.
Do NOT write to NTFS from Linux.
It may corrupt your NTFS filesystem.

i got it without downloading anything, thanks to both people that replied, all set now, untill the next question that is....