[ale] HELP! Installing Linux over Windows

Jonathan Glass jonathan.glass at ibb.gatech.edu
Fri Aug 8 10:40:40 EDT 2003


On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 08:35, Geoffrey wrote:
> Eric Melo wrote:
> > Yes.... it is possible to view NTFS, you simple enable auto mount for the particion. SEE BELOW
> > 
> > mount -t ntfs /dev/xdxx /mount/point
> > 
> > PS: you need to compile the Kernel for NTFS support.(>2.4.18)
> 
> Actually, I believe ntfs support was available back in 2.0.  Regardless, 
> the issue at hand is writing to the ntfs safely, and mounting it via 
> 'mount -t ntfs ..' is not safe for writing.

Actually, NTFS is disabled in all Redhat kernels, and a kernel recompile
is necessary, although I must admit I haven't checked RH 9 for this,
yet.

thanks
-- 
Jonathan Glass
Systems Support Specialist II
Institute for Bioengineering & Bioscience
Georgia Institute of Technology
Email: jonathan.glass at ibb.gatech.edu
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