Is this really correct? I have a similar problem, but see NTFS is listed as
a valid filesystem in the manpage, just like MSDOS. I don't have to
recompile to mount a floppy...

-----Original Message-----
From: rpjday [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 4:29 PM
To: Jeremy Bradley
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Mounting NTFS on 6.2


On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Jeremy Bradley wrote:

> I am a newbie and I am trying to mount a local NTFS partition.  I am
getting
> and error saying that NTFS is not supported with this kernel...this is a
> stock 6.2 install..did I leave out a package??  I even tried setting up
the
> mount in gnome and NTFS was not a choice of file systems.  I looked all
over
> redhats sight and didn't find anything that was helpful...Thanks for any
> help.

you have to rebuild the kernel and add NTFS support.  or, if you're lazy
like i am, reconfigure the kernel and add NTFS as a module, then just
load the module.  no need to rebuild the entire kernel.

rday


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