Hello all.

I'm looking for a way to find the files on the slave drive I hooked up to my rig. The HDD was previously on a machine running XP Pro, it was the primary HDD with the OS on it. Can anyone run me through how I access the files on it, or where to even view it? I'm super new so I'd appreciate no abbreviations.

PS, it should be NTFS. Dunno if that'll make a difference or not. If you need more info let me know!

Yes it makes a difference, Tead Hat and Fedora Core does not support NTFS 'out of the box' which means they do not build kernels with the ntfs filesystem support.

Visit; http://www.linux-ntfs.org/ and follow the links to download the correct version of the package to install on you system. Your running kernel version is important.

Ok, I went to the site and followed instruction. Will it make a difference if the module I picked it (kernel-module-ntfs-2.6.9-1.667-2.1.20-0.rr.3.3.i686.rpm ? The i686 really confused me? I thought I had something installed that said i386? The computer it's installed on is an emachines (not by choice) 2300 AMD Athlon, 128MB DDR, with some 3D Pro Savage8 or something for a graphics card? *Shrug*

Also, to install this I need to have yum? Well, I want to have yum. Which version of yum should I have? Because everytime I click the blinking red ! at the top right to update, it freezes and I have to do it on my own.

Actually, it told me to check my kernel version first and im at:

2.6.9-1.667

When I update, will I also have to update yum?

to find out what processor architecture you're machine has, type
that'll tell you what type of processor it is (i686, x86_64 etc.).

If you want to update your system using the red hat updater, open up a terminal and type
that should launch the update manager, and because you're running it from the command line, any errors will be displayed in the terminal.

With regards the rest, I can't really offer much help, sorry!

Really check which kernel(s) are installed, the command below will tell exactly which kernels you have on your system;

rpm -qa --queryformat="%{n}-%{v}-%{r}.%{arch}.rpm\n" 'kernel*'

Hint: notice the arch (i386, i686 or whatever) this is what to match in addition to the kernel version number. Also if the installed kernel has smp in the naming this is important in order to download the correct kernel-module-ntfs package.

No yum is not needed to install the correct ntfs package, yum is a nice tool that automates and combines multiple repositories to assist in package installation and removal. Yum is really good at resolving package dependencies so you can install updates and new packages in a fairly painless process.

Sounds like you have a new installation of Fedora Core 3 if this is true then the first thing you want to do, before worrying about your other drive, is to visit Fedora Legacy and install an updated version of yum from Fedora Legacy. Then use yum to update your entire installation.

http://www.fedoralegacy.org/

Once your done with all the updates and rebooting,then you can go back to the the ntfs site and download the ntfs kernel module for the new kernel on your system.

And before I forget to install the kernel-module-ntfs rpm, as root from the console or xterm session; rpm -Uvh kernel-module-ntfs*.rpm

Here are the results you asked for and yes, it is a fresh install so I'll be heading to the legacy site right now.

I really did not ask for any output, I just wanted you to download and install the kernel-module-ntfs package for your actual installed kerenl. It is nice to see that you did in fact install the correct one.

You may have been better off and waited to install the package until the updating from Fedora Legacy was done.