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[Mark Weaver]

Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> Am Fr, den 24.12.2004 schrieb Mark Weaver um 4:06:
> 
> 
>>>Now, it won't read my music CD...  And any idea how I can access my XP 
>>>partition?
> 
> 
>>As for reading your XP partition if your XP partition is formatted NTFS 
>>then you've got to have the support for reading that filesystem enabled 
>>in the kernel. Mandrake Linux has this support compiled in by default, 
>>but so far as I've seen RedHat doesn't. You very well may have to 
>>recompile the kernel to allow you to view the contents of your XP partition.
> 
> 
>>Mark
> 
> 
> No, no kernel recompile is necessary. The list archive is full with
> answers and even the FC3 release notes contain instructions to build the
> NTFS kernel module your own withouth compiling the whole kernel.
> 
> http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/rpm/instructions.html
> 
> Alexander

nice! thanks for the info. I'm gonna take a look at this. Haven't done a 
kernel in a while and since this doesn't require doing the entire kernel 
it'll be a little while longer before I do another.

-- 
Mark

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