[KLUG Members] NTFS mount/nonmount

[Taz]

Eric Beversluis wrote:

>Very interesting. I just installed Fedora Core 3 on my eMachine (dual
>boot with W98). I plugged in my Maxtor external HDD to the USB-1 port
>and got very different results than I get with my Mandrake 10.1 on the
>little Sony:
>
>    The FAT32 partition that I had trouble getting access to on the
>Mandrake popped right up on my desktop with no issues. The ext3
>partition also came up nicely. And Fedora reads them (mounted on the USB
>device). But the NTFS partition won't read or mount--error message says
>ntfs not supported by the kernal. Same message comes when I try to mount
>it from the command line.
>
>On the other hand, the W98 FAT partition (on a separate HDD in the
>eMachine) needs to be manually mounted--it doesn't even appear in the
>User Mount Tool that comes up with Disk Management (tho it does appear
>in the Hardware Browser). It does manually mount, but seemed to
>disappear again when I logged on (without shutting down the machine) to
>mundane user. When I su'd to root, it also did not show up with the
>mount command.
>
>On a different note:
>   I copied the contents of my old home directory back to the eMachine
>from the Maxtor and evolution mail not only recognized all the old mail
>but even picked up all of my mail account settings.
>
>EB
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Interesting, when I blew off RH 8 on my box and tried to load Mandrake 
10.1, I had a bear of a time trying to get it to work. In fact, I never 
did. Still haven't retried to do it again.


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