-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Brian Craft wrote: > Chris Maiden wrote: >> Hi All >> >> I am feeling quite happy! I have got Fedora Core 5 up and running on my >> Workstation and apart from a few hiccups all is well. >> >> Now I am getting adventurous! >> >> I am thinking of setting up my HP NX8220 laptop with dual booting for >> Windows XP Pro and Fedora Core 5. >> >> I have looked on the internet at a few tutorials and I noticed that >> Linux will not read NTFS partitions so I wanted to check my thinking. >> >> So should I create 3 partitions, one for Windows NTFS, a partition for >> Fedora and then a 1 Gb partition as FAT32 so that I can "transfer files" >> between the two? I know I'll be limited to a Gb this way but is this the >> best way to go about it? >> >> Also wondered if anyone had come across any major problems installing >> Fedora Core 5 on the HP NX8220. >> >> Any tips and information really appreciated!!! >> >> Regards, >> >> Chris >> > > http://www.linux-ntfs.org/content/view/187 > > Check out this website............it's a patch for the particular kernal > your running.....just download the .rpm file and install it. (I can't > remember, but you may have to have the kernal source files installed too.) > Even easier - go to rpm.livna.org and follow the instructions to add their repo to your yum config, then yum install kmod-ntfs. Nor rebuilding of your kernel is needed. Bear in mind this still only gives you read-only access. I find a better solution is to have a separate fat-32 partition for shared files, but YMMV. Good Luck Scott -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEjD2M5mBKdb7VQEcRAt4SAJ44F3uP/N45WUSqj/eFLrYr78WaXACgsj25 SWX8chV9RKVvlsMzGjuCP7k= =/pr2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
