This doesn't answer your question ("What went wrong?"), but when I
wanted access to my NTFS, I found the following at
http://www.fedorafaq.org/#ntfs
$ wget http://www.fedorafaq.org/samples/yum.conf
$ sudo mv /etc/yum.conf /etc/yum.conf.orig
$ sudo cp -i yum.conf /etc
$ sudo rpm -Uvh http://www.fedorafaq.org/yum
http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-5.rpm
$ sudo yum install kmod-ntfs
Once I did that, I was able to
$ sudo mount -t ntfs -oro,uid=1000,gid=1000 /dev/hda1 /c
Oh yeah, if you don't have "sudo" set up on your system, you can
change all of the commands that read:
sudo this that
to read
su -c "this that"
--wpd
