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[God]

I wouldn't be surprised if that was true. *sigh*

[Aexoden]

For now, I'm useless. But after Christmas I'll be installing Linux and XP, and I'll want to mount my drive. I know there is a project somewhere on sourceforge that is working to put NTFS support into Linux, but I'm not sure if that one operates as a daemon or if it requires a recompile. I did recomplie my kernel once, for some reason, and I think it succeeded. Not that I remember what I did. *shrugs*

If you haven't figured it out in a while, I'll be more useful once I get my hands dirty.

[crono_logical]

I suppose the easiest solution is to not convert your partition to NTFS when you install XP, or at least convert it back to Fat32 using Partition Magic or similar - I personally don't see a need for NTFS if you're going to be the only one using your computer, and no-one else

[Citizen Bleys]

That's no good for me. XP's on my laptop, which I'm constantly passing over to others so they can use it whenever I'm not busy.

Plus, NTFS is great for porn-hiding

[God]

I thought WinXP Professional required an NTFS filesystem. If I'd have known I could've used a FAT32 I probably would've.

Aexoden: I think I saw that project too. I think that's more for enabling write-access to NTFS systems, which as of now doesn't work, I think. (Everywhere I see to download write-access support, there're all sorts of warnings like "This is dangerous! Don't use it! I'm serious! It'll destroy you!" Things like that.) I thought they already had the read-only part down pretty good. Read-only NTFS support came with my RedHat distribution, but I know I have to recompile the kernel to enable it.

Ah well. Trial-and-error is probably the best way to figure it out. 90% of computer knowledge is gained by screwing stuff up a couple times and figuring out what you did, it seems.

[crono_logical]

Nope, it doesn't I left mine as FAT32 because I didn't see a need for it, and I also use Linux occasionally so would be nice to still have rw access to everything

[God]

Well, I got it to work. It took a couple more tries, but I figured it out. It seems my problem was more in getting all my other hardware to work right (my USB mouse was the main problem) after recompiling the kernel. RedHat autodetected my mouse fine during install but it took some work to get the kernel to recognize it myself. All I did was ran usr/src/linux-2.4/make menuconfig; figuring out teh right options to include took the most time. Then I ran make dep, make clean, make bzImage, make modules, make modules_install, then copied the bzimage to /boot, changed /etc/grub.conf to add a menu option for the new boot image, and it worked fine. The command to mount the ntfs drive took awhile to figure out too, since by default ntfs drives only give priveledges to the root user and no one else, but mount -t ntfs -o umask=0222 /dev/hda1 /XP worked fine. That gives all users write and execute access. There is no write access for anyone of course. It's not supported by the kernel yet, and I wouldn't use it if it was.

If I can do it I'm sure you can too Bleys. Now I need to figure out how to add that stuff to my fstab.