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. The easiest way is to install the kernel-ntfs RPM from http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/3/i386/RPMS.stable/ that matches your kernel. I do this for the nvidia since it does not break dependencies like installing nvidia's driver directly. > 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? >From what I understand there may be some patent issues with reading/writing NTFS and so this is one of the reasons it's not included in fedora. Regards, Paul
