On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 15:24 -0400, Loren Lockwood wrote: > Hi all. I'm very new at Linux. Have tried a couple of distros and like > FC3 best so far. Some problems exist, though. I have dual boot with > Win2K using NTFS. FC3 can't see that partition. Bumming around on the > net I found out that seeing NTFS is an option which is turned off by > default in the kernel of this distro. To turn it on, they say I have to > recompile the kernel. That seems scary to me, but I found a site with > very extensive instructions and decided to try it. But first I need the > kernel source code. Where do I find that? I poked around in Red Hat's > site, also Fedora's, but didn't find anything. > > Also, does this mean that every time a new kernel is issued I'll have to > go through the same procedure? Isn't there some way to get this option > turned on by default? > You do not need to compile. A module is available at http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/rpm/ install it and you will be on the way. NOTE: NTFS support is read-only in Linux. If you want to share files between the 2 OSes then you want to create a vfat partition and use that for the shared data since both OSes can read/write to a Win98 filesystem. > Your help would be greatly appreciated. > > BTW, I have read through a couple hundred emails from this list and not > found any other references to this problem. Can it be that nobody else > needs NTFS access from FC3? Is that why it's turned off by default? I > still need W2K for certain jobs, although I hope that the number of such > jobs will approach zero as time goes by. > > Thanks. -Loren >
