Tuesday, March 15, 2005

NTFS support (mounting Windows partition)

Open the terminal

  • Type: su
  • Hit enter
  • Type your root password
  • Hit enter
  • Type: uname -r -p

(This will output your kernel version and processor type)
Open Firefox. Go to
http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/rpm/fedora3.html and download (save to disk) the appropriate NTFS RPM for your kernel version and processor type

  • With the root terminal still open
  • type: rpm -ivh *.rpm
  • Hit enter
  • Wait for the installation to complete
  • Type: rm *.rpm
  • Hit enter
  • Type "y" and hit enter
  • Type: su -Hit enter
  • Type: mkdir /mnt/windows
  • Hit enter
  • Type: /sbin/fdisk -l
  • Hit enter

This will output your HPFS/NTFS partition identifier

  • Type: gedit /etc/fstab
  • Type the following in gedit: /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs ro,defaults,umask=0222 0 0
  • If your partition identifier is not "/dev/hda1" substitute the correct characters. (For example it might be "/dev/sda1" if you have a SATA drive.)
  • Click the "save" icon in gedit and exit gedit.
  • Close the terminal
  • Reboot

Your Windows partition should now be available in the file browser under "/mnt/windows".

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