Windows partition

[Norman LeCouvie]

Thanks jeff.

My kernel is as follows;

2.6.5-1.358.8kstacks

not

2.6.5-1.358

as I had to chnage it to allow for my wireless adapter.

When I load the 2.6.5-1.358 kernel at boot it works fine, when I use the 
top one it does not.

Does this make sense?

norman

Jeff Vian wrote:

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> Norman LeCouvie wrote:
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>> Is that hard?
>>
>> I am a windows guy and trying to make a go of this. Had our Sun JDS 
>> working for a while but have found fedora mush nicer and it 
>> recognized almost all of my hardware
>>
>> thanks,
>>
>> norman
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>> ne... wrote:
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>>> On Jun 23, 2004 at 16:50, Norman LeCouvie in a soothing rage wrote:
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>>> [top posting rearranged]
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>>>> ne... wrote:
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>>>>> On Jun 23, 2004 at 07:39, Norman LeCouvie in a soothing rage wrote:
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>>>>>    
>>>>>
>>>>>> How can I see the files on my windows partition?
>>>>>>       
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Create a mount point for the partition. If it is one
>>>>> of the FAT types, mount it using vfat. If it is ntfs,
>>>>> head over to http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/ and
>>>>> get the ntfs module. Install it and mount the with
>>>>> ntfs. If you want to make this more permanent, add
>>>>> an entry to /etc/fstab.
>>>>>     
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> HI,
>>>>
>>>> thanks for the support. I got the RPM but here is my issue.
>>>>
>>>> To get my Linuxant wireless driver to work I had to install an rpm 
>>>> that created 8kstacks and that is now the kernel. I have an option 
>>>> when I boot to load either the original kernel or the 8kstack 
>>>> kernel. If I load the original, I can see the windows file system, 
>>>> when I load the other I cannot as it tells me that
>>>> mount: fs type ntfs not supported by kernel
>>>>
>>>> any suggestions?
>>>>   
>>>
>>>
>>> Each kernel has to be compiled with the ntfs module. From
>>> what you have written, your 8k stack kernel does not have
>>> the ntfs module compiled. You will need to recompile the
>>> kernel module for that.
>>>
>>> N.Emile...
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> Hey  N.Emile
>
> There is an ntfs module.  Compiling is not required.  The archives 
> have had a lot of discussion recently and a quick search gives
>
> http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-February/msg03257.html
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