This dumb question from a newbie will probably have a dumb answer but please excuse me asking anyway.

I have just installed Fedora Core 6,( on an empty slave disk ) successfully! and it appears to work. The main reason for using FC6 rather than FC5 was to get access to my Windows XP disc ( master drive hda )and while it was installing I saw it recognized my other disc as ntfs. When I completed my install at the included apps and packages screen I customised to include ntfs support and anything else that included one or more of the letters n, t, f and s.

Now that I am running FC6 I have looked everywhere for some GUI tool or widget to access the ntfs disk, I have tried mounting in a terminal window with "mount -t ntfs /dev/hda /mnt/win" and similar and it tells me it does not recognise file type ntfs.

My only system peculiarity is that I have the XP disk as master and the Fedora disc as slave but in the BIOS I have booted from the slave by shoving it up the boot list. (XP boots by remapping 0 to 1 and 1 to 0 to spoof the job )

Am I missing a simple big trick or what? Please help!
Thanks JP

It is a well known fact that Red Hat aka Fedora does not support the NTFS filesystem "out of the box", either rebuild the kernel or visit;

http://www.linux-ntfs.org/

Have a look at http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mj...-fc6.html#ntfs These are some very easy to follow instructions for getting this setup.

Well that is the point. FC6 is advertised as including support for ntfs. I could have persisted with FC5 and downloaded from linux-ntfs.org. Where they also say if you are using FC6 "go away we don't have a driver for you because you don't need it"

I tried ubuntu, several times, got all sorts of boot errors and couldn't get dual boot with XP to work, and my life was getting shorter. I really prefer Fedora as a substantial prooduct backed by a solid organisation.

SO...Am I correct in understanding that FC6 does have support for ntfs file systems?

JP

Excellent. Thank you xjlittle that was a point in the right direction.
So the answer is some FC6's include ntfs support and some don't and if not you can add it.

I already installed kernel...2798 and then accepted all the offered updates which has added kernel.....2868 into grub.conf so if I reboot I might just find I have already been infected with the ntfs inclusive kernel.

Am looking at this thing right?
JP

even easier,

...from the extras repository.

Don't forget to turn off SElinux (with system-config-security) if you want your ntfs drive to be mounted automatically at boot time, otherwise you'll have to mount and then unmount it every time you want to use your windows drive.