How can i play media files off of my Win2k NTFS Hard drrive from Fedora

calmlikeabomb · 01-25-2004, 05:06 PM

I have win2k professional on my 80 gig master Hard drive and have recently installed Fedora core on my 20 gig slave, i really enjoy using this OS instead of windows but i have 2 gigs of media that i would like to be able to access from within fedora, any help is greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

John David

jtshaw · 01-25-2004, 05:08 PM

You will need to compile NTFS read support into the kernel. NTFS write support is a bad idea, but reading works just fine.

calmlikeabomb · 01-25-2004, 05:43 PM

alright sounds good, now is there a site with documentation or do you have the instructions on how to go about this? i am really wanting to learn as much as i can so thanks for the input!

jtshaw · 01-25-2004, 06:07 PM

Well, first thing you need is the kernel source, if you don't already have it. I am not sure what the package is called, but there should be one available from Fedora.

There kernel source is usually found in /usr/src/linux.

There is a howto on this site here

calmlikeabomb · 01-25-2004, 06:16 PM

thanks for you help, i found this site to be greatly helpfull! http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/ i can now browse everything, but when i tried to play an MP3 the XMS says that the mp3 support was taken our by redhat? im trying to play my own bands music lol what can i do now?

calmlikeabomb · 01-25-2004, 08:08 PM

nevermind i found the rpm package to remove this restriction

GraemeK · 01-26-2004, 03:40 AM

what was the rpm?!?

calmlikeabomb · 01-26-2004, 12:19 PM

http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrp....2.fr.i386.rpm

Just $ rpm -ivh xmms-mp3* as root.

GraemeK · 01-27-2004, 03:18 AM

done it now.......used a tar.gz file and copied the lib files to /usr/lib/xmms/Input

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