I have a 1.5 P4
512 ram
with two 80 gig harddrives

one with XP home (ntfs) . set as master.
and the other with Fedroa core 1 set as slave.

I running grub bootloader and can boot to either
OS but I can't see my other harddrive

IE: in xp i can't see my linux loaded hardrive

and in linux i can't see my ntfs drive

Is there somthing to configure so that i can
see them and share file's between them?

yup you gesssed it i'm a noob!

In linux your kernel has to have support for ntfs reading (either compiled or as a module)
In windows you need 3rd party software to read linux-native partitions.

You can really really really hose up an ntfs partition from linux if you try writing to it.
You can really really really hose up a linux-native partition from windows if you try writing to it.

If you decide to recompile your kernel (or need to even) you have to edit the /etc/fstab file to mount the ntfs partition, then use the mount command.

Search this forum for info about the kernel, the part you need to look at is under file systems -> NTFS file systems support (read only)

when you're sure you have it enabled, post your /etc/fstab file contents and we will go from there.

But i won't be hosing anything up LOL

im too new . it sounds like i need to do some reading before i DO mess things up

your warning is enough for me I will learn more before going any farther.

As soon as I get more comfortable with linux I'm going to completely drop the Windows.

Good thinking. The search page of this site is a good place to start IMO. Almost any question you can think of has been asked here.

If you were to switch to SuSE your XP partitions are automaticlly mounted,but you still need 3rd party software to see your linux partitions