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Newbie Question:

I have RH5.2 installed on a workstation that is dual booted with NT 4.0
workstation.  The LAN has one NT 4.0 server.   There are files both on
the NT server and NT workstation disks (NTFS format) that I would like
to access from linux.  Is there a way to mount the NT disks just as I
would a FAT-16 ro FAT-32 formatted disk?

TIA

Bob Hartung

You can do it, but you have to recompile your kernel and include
experimental drivers for NTFS.  You have to choose an unstable kernel to
do it (2.1.*).   NTFS is not already include with stable kernel (like
2.0.36).  To download latest unstable kernel(2.1.132) go here:
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel/v2.1/

to recompile the kernel:
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cp ./linux-2.1.132.tar.gz /usr/src/
cd /usr/src
mv linux linux-bak
tar -xzvf linux-2.1.132.tar.gz
cd linux
make xconfig
make dep
make clean
make bzlilo
make modules
make modules_install
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New kernel are in "/vmlinuz" and "/System.map" -> normally, you are
suppose to recopy these files in your "/boot/". (Becarful to not
overwrite the old kernel)
edit your /etc/lilo.conf
remake a "make bzlilo" is necessary (to include the new label on your
lilo).
reboot

nom you can do: mount -t ntfs /dev/hda? /mnt/windowsNT

PS: NTFS with Linux is read-only.

J-F