i am running red hat 8.0, and im trying to mount a partition that is ntfs
im in gnome, and i go to KDiskfree, and when i try to mount the partition hda5 (win xp partition) it says i have to be loged in as root. so i su to root, and try to run mount /dev/hda5 /mnt/win (/mnt/win is also a valid dir).
any thoughts?

thanks,
digsby

Well, you don't tell us what happens after that Any error messages?

You probably would like to check out this page:
http://www.google.com/url?sa=U&start...hat.html&e=747

Cool

this is the error as root
[root@115 downloaded]# mount /dev/hda5 /mnt/windows
mount: fs type ntfs not supported by kernel

so what i tried to do was look for ntfs support in the packages section, but it gets past reading headers of rpms then it disapears.


stumped again,
digsby

Yeah, that link up there is definitely for you then

Cool

ok i downloaded the correct rpm for my kernel 9 im using kernel ver. 2.4.20-18.8) and I run the rpm as root, and the install gives me no errors. but when i type /sbin/modprobe ntfs i get the cannot locate module ntfs, so i followed the web sites directions, and ran /sbin/depmod -a, then ran /sbin/modprobe ntfs, but it still gives me the cannot find module ntfs error.
step 2 says for me to download the .o file, and i renamed it to ntfs.o and place it in the //sbin/modprobe ntfs, and then ran /sbin/depmod -a, and then /sbin/modprobe nts, but i still get the cannot locate module ntfs.

any thoughts?
digsby