Re: moving to linux

Maxim Eremeev wrote:

Ron Watson wrote:

I just installed fedora 2, the fedora 3 anaconda would crash when it looked at my
partitions, put in 2.6.9, then updated last night to 2.6.10.... I have fat32 and ntfs
partitions, w98 and w2k installed but oopsie, i told it to put the boot loader on
main disk and w2k won't load. tried to mount them and doesn't know about ntfs.
How do I add ntfs support to kernel or restore the windoze boot loader to "C:"?

Well, it is relatively easy to restore the Win2K boot loader. You just need its installation disc, then you boot from it into recovery console and
fixboot
fixmbr
should do the trick.
However then you will need to reinstall your grub through recovery disc, and I suggest you to search through the posts here as the problem of dual (and even triple) boot was discussed several times.
Good luck,
Maxim.

Thanks, will make a recovery disk, test it, try to get w2k back up, get linux back up.
As for ntfs support... went to /boot/config-2.6.10-1.9_FC2 and it says auto generated...
auto generated by what? Noticed it does not set ntfs support, e.g.

# CONFIG_NTFS_FS is not set

so is it "safe" to add

CONFIG_NTFS_FS=y

to the config file, will it just get overwritten at next boot, or what?

Ron;

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