Fedora and NTFS

[Paul Howarth]

Antonio Barragan wrote:
> Dear All
> 
> I have a linux box with the following configuration:
> 1 GB RAM
> AMD athlon processor
> MSI KM8 board
> Western digital 80 MB SATA disk
> 
> I have split the HD in two partitions, one of which is 15 MB NTFS for 
> Windows XP to live in.
> 
> Next, I tried to install fedora Core3. When I get to the partitioning 
> step, for which I choose Disk Druid,
> the partitions scheme shows the NTFS partition, but it won´t allow to 
> mount such partition. Instead,
> the message "Not Apliccable" is displayed.
> 
> Then, my question is:
> Do I have to change the NTFS partition to something like fat32?
> Can´t fedora handle (recognize/mount/read/write) NTFS partitions?
> 
> Any help will be welcome

See http://www.fedorafaq.org/#ntfs

Paul.