-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 06:57:49PM -0600, Cindy Cullen wrote: > > On Thursday 02 December 2004 6:06 pm, Cindy Cullen wrote: > > > > I'm getting this error: > > > > mount: fs type ntfs not supported by kernel > > > > so, I'm guessing that I need to add this support to my kernel.?
Heh, good guess. And yes, I > > will need help.? I read through the FAQ that Scott pointed me to earlier > > but I didn't quite understand it all - especially about re-compiling the > > kernel. Yes, that part of the faq should probably be either removed completely, or updated. Who maintains that junky thing anyway? Oh, never mind. :) Seriously, it was written back in the time of the 2.4 kernel, and so I really have to update it, and will, perhaps over the weekend. > > > > I have the fedora core 3 CD's here should I upgrade to that before I try > > to re-compile?? FC3 doesn't support ntfs either - I tried. No, it doesn't, you're correct. (That part, at least of the faq is still accurate, though I think it refers to RedHat 7.2) > > Update: > > I do have a set of SuSE Linux 9.1 CD's here - should I try to install them > and overwrite the FC1 installation? I know the SuSE supports ntfs and I'm > not concerned about losing anything in the Linux FC1 installation - I had > just put that on to test it out. Suse is a possibility, SimplyMepis is another. If SuSE definitely supports NTFS, and that is the biggest issue (recovering the Windows files) then it might be the easiest solution. Compiling a kernel isn't difficult, but when you are first learning, it can be intimidating. Of course, it takes experience to REALLY mess it up, when you're beginning to do it, you're careful--after you've gotten used to it, you blithely tab through the menu choices and do things like accidentally remove support for your hard drives--this can lead to an interesting reboot. (For FreeBSD'ers, along the same lines, the other day, meaning to remove /usr/obj before doing a buildworld, I cheerfully used tab completion to get to /usr/obj and did my chflags and rm -rf *. Only afterwards did I realize I had not gone all the way to /usr/obj and had managed to entirely remove /usr. Oops. ) I haven't been following this thread closely--if you had a couple of networked machines, I would say boot with some LiveCD or another and just copy the files from the Windows partition to another machine, but I'm gathering that you don't have a couple of networked machines. SimplyMepis installs more quickly than SuSE, supports NTFS out of the box, and in my opinion is better as a newcomer friendly distribution--however, I'm not very familiar with SuSE--I think that Horror, one of the moderators is, and can perhaps help you. Sigh, I'm getting long winded, perhaps in embarrassment at it being pointed out that the kernel questions in the faq need to be updated. :)I I AM concerned about some of the files that > I'm trying to recover from the Windows partition. My problem is that I'm > afraid if for some reason the SuSE install doesn't work, I'll have to > reformat the whole hard drive. Any help? There is always that possibility, but it's not too likely as long as you're careful, read the SuSE books that come with the CD's (which are supposedly very good) and such. If it didn't work, as long as you didn't touch the partion with the MS stuff, you could always try to find a friend with two networked machines and a live CD to copy over the Windows files. I don't know how hard that would be for you, nor how valuable the files on the MS partition are, that is, if they're worth that kind of effort. One gets spoiled having several machines around. :) - -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Dracula: Very impressive hunt. Such power. Buffy: That was no hunt. That was just another day on the job. Care to step up for some overtime? Dracula: We're not going to fight. Buffy: Do you know what a Slayer is? Dracula: Do you? Buffy: Who are you? Dracula: I apologize. I assumed you knew. I am Dracula. Buffy: Get out! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBr8AY+lTVdes0Z9YRAmjHAJ9tukQcEixfgjk1qilPKenqBtGstACeMNNr VSJrwL1yQ6UfZq3zuSwbDhU= =tDmm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> $9.95 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/J8kdrA/y20IAA/yQLSAA/0XFolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To unsubscribe from this list, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] & you will be removed. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
