Monday, June 26, 2006

Install Fedora Core 3 on the notebook - dual boot with windows xp home edition

- Intallation of FC, dual boot successful
- Acess windows partition: ntfs
ref: http://www.linux-ntfs.org/content/view/127/63/
* downloand linux-ntfs package, install

* mount problem
[root@localhost mnt]# mount /dev/hda5 /mnt/window1
mount: fs type ntfs not supported by kernel

- list all partitions on all drives:
% sfdisk -l ( fdisk -l)
% cat /proc/filesystems ( should see ntfs)

- decide which release you have. Run this command
% cat /etc/redhat-release

Next find out your kernel version:
    uname -r
Install You must be root for the rest of the commands. The examples will continue as if you downloaded kernel-ntfs-2.4.18-14.i686.rpm.

Note: Newer NTFS RPMs have names like
    kernel-module-ntfs-2.6.8-1.541-2.1.17-0.fc.1.2.i586.rpm




- show swap size:
% swapon -s

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