Ok, i installed Everything off the cd by choosing Install everything which was 5.3GBs, and i downloaded the mp3 support rpm btu the only thing i'm missing now is NTFS support. i just need to be able to play my mp3s from partition D which is NTFS and copy files from that drive to my linux drive. i don't need write access.

In MDK 9.1 they had a root terminal and a root explorer like program which was easy to config fstab. how would i write and save in the fstab file?
I try wriiting in it but nothing gets written. thanks!

you have to open a text editor as root from a terminal. then make and save the changes.

how would i enable root in terminal? i try 'Login' then a new line would appear then i type 'root' then a new line appears, then i type my password. but i get a error mesange about wrong login.

Oh and how do i open a text editor threw a terminal?

Try this:

1) If you are in init 3 (multiuser terminal mode) do one of the following:
a) At the prompt, type su - root (include the hyphen). When prompted for the password, enter the password you provided when you first installed Fedora.

OR

b) press ALT and F2 (or F3,F4...F6) together. This will give you another virtual console. You should see the Login: prompt, where you would type "root". Then it will ask you for the password, and you would type in the password you provided when you first installed Fedora.

2) If you are in init 5 (X) do one of the following:
a) open a terminal window and follow step a above.

OR

b) press CTRL+ALT+F1 (or f2,f3...f6) together, then follow step b above. When you are done, press ALT+F7 to return to your X session.

Once you have established yourself as root, use vi or pico to edit your /etc/fstab. You should see some other lines in the file that will act as examples to help you configure the entry you need to add. At the prompt, type vi /etc/fstab and it will open the file with the vi editor. VI can be very annoying. You can navigate with the cursor keys, press i to enable insert mode, type your changes, press esc to recover from insert mode, then press :wq to save your changes.

Hope that helps.

Open the console (terminal), type:

1. su (you need to be root to edit fstab)
2. type su password
3. cd /etc (this will change the directory to /etc)
4. mc (this will open midnight commander)
5. find fstab
6. press F4 and edit the file
7. press F2 and save the file

Hope this helps :-)

great martina-cz it works. i can edit it, now i know how to do things in root threw terminal.

Nytehawk thanks, i'll also keep your directions in my notes.

The su command will work, but you will not be fully logged in as root. su with the hyphen (su - root) will actually give you all the permissions of root. There are certain things you will not be able to do unless you are completely logged in as root.

Ok thanks, I made a note of that,