fedora core 3 - dual boot
 

HI all,

I have just replaced Mandake 10.0 by Fedora core 3 on my laptop, and I cannot
see windows side of computer (i used to be able to copy the files from windows partition). Is there anything I can do to fix that?

Thanks!
Masha

Have you mounted you windows partition?

post the contents of /etc/fstab.

Hi, and thanks for prompt replies

no, windows is not mounted (dah!). I tried to do it manually
% mkdir /windows; chmod a+rw /windows
% mount /dev/hda1 /windows -t nfts

But I got the error message: mount: fs type ntfs not supported by kernel

Do I need to recompile the kernel??

Masha

as far as i know linux doesn't have good support for nfts yet. I know windows xp and 2000 use nfts but if your using an older windows you could change it to FAT32 which has better support under linux. I could be wrong tho, you'll have to look around to see what you can about nfts being supported. Trying doing a search on here for it or googling it.

well, Mandrake10.0 didn't have a problem reading and copying files from ntfs.
I saw some rpms "ntfsprogs" that are supposed to help with FC3 doing the same w/o recompiling the kernel - i will try tonight and see if it helps.
thanks

masha

well i was not entirely sure, haven't dealt with nfts much myself. I looked for some threads on here:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...highlight=nfts
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...highlight=nfts
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...highlight=nfts

that should be enough to get you started. :)

one of the links talked about captive - nfts, which seems to be able to let you write to the nfts partition so you may want to look into that as well.

AFAIK NTFS is very well supported by all distros (read only).

If your system doesnt recognize NTFS theres a big chance it's probably not enabled in the kernel, forcing you to recompile the kernel again.

Hi,

as explained on the "captive" website, after installing "captive-static-1.1.5-0.i386.rpm", I ran
"/usr/sbin/captive-install-acquire" and followed all the guidelines, then created "/mnt/win_c/" and
ran "mount -t captive-ntfs /dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c"

Bingo! I can READ AND WRITE on the windowsXP side of hard drive.
All my best

Masha