Ok, I'm at a lost. My setup is 2 hard drives. Drive #1 is a SATA that has Windows XP on it. Drive #2 is IDE with Fedore Core 4.

I want to be able to access my Windows XP drive so I can transfer files over.

I've done the following:

# /sbin/fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hdb: 61.4 GB, 61471162368 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7473 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
/dev/hdb2 14 7473 59922450 8e Linux LVM

Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 14592 117210208+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

# mount -t ntfs /dev/sda1 /mnt/win
mount: unknown filesystem type 'ntfs'

# mount -t NTFS /dev/sda1 /mnt/win/
mount: unknown filesystem type 'NTFS'

# mount -t HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda1 /mnt/win/
mount: unknown filesystem type 'HPFS/NTFS'

# rpm -ivf kernel-module-ntfs-2.6.14-1.1653_FC4-2.1.24-0.rr.10.4.i686.rpm
Preparing packages for installation...
package kernel-module-ntfs-2.6.14-1.1653_FC4-2.1.24-0.rr.10.4 is already installed




So I installed the rpm that is suppose to give ntfs support for FC4, however it still doesn't recognize it. Is there a way around this without having to recompile the kernel? Also, I'm a linux newbie. Thanks guys!

Try the mount command without the -t parameter as in:

mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/win

First make sure that /mnt/win exists.

If that doesn't work then try looking in /etc/fstab to see if there is an entry for /dev/sda1. It could have bad options.

If that doesn't work then try using verbose mode with the mount command as in:

mount -vf /dev/sda1 /mnt/win

The last form fakes a mount (-f) but supplies some information about the mount process (-v).

Lastly try a regular mount one more time but add the option for read only mount:

mount -o ro /dev/sda1 /mnt/win

Let us know if any of this helped.

Unfortunately no.

All of those commands came back with

mount: unknown filesystem type 'ntfs'

And /mnt/win does exist

It's as if FC4 isn't recognizing ntfs, although I installed the module it should be able to mount a ntfs drive.

I got to thinking about it and I was wondering if i installed the right RPM.

kernel-module-ntfs-2.6.14-1.1653_FC4-2.1.24-0.rr.10.4.i686.rpm

My system is i686 and I haven't done anything to the linux kernel so it was the one that was shipped with FC4.

Alright! Well I went and double checked the numbers, and being the that I am, I found I downloaded the wrong rpm. I mounted and everything seem to go okay. However, how do I get an icon or access it now that it's mounted? If there is a tutorial somewhere that I could read I would be glad to read it.

Thanks guys!

Not sure of icons, as this would be dependant on which desktop environment you use. However, your win partition is now mounted at /mnt/win, as you told the mount command...

Either use an xterm and "cd /mnt/win" or use your favorite file manager to navigate there...

Gotcha, didn't realize that until after I made that post; it's been a long day. Thanks though!