How do I go about this

[Ambassador Incursio]

Tom,

Thanks for your suggestion.

The directory you specified did not exist.  I searched
for other linux directories and other directories that
had xconfig files in them.

I found one xconfig file and did a search within the
file but nothing with "ntfs" showed up.

I tried make xconfig and make menuconfig and neither
worked.  I got an error:

	No rule to make target 'xconfig'. Stop.

Any ideas?

Paul

--- Tom Williams <tomdkat at attbi.com> wrote:
> Ambassador Incursio wrote:
> 
> > hello all.
> >
> > I have a dual boot laptop running XP and RH3.  I
> tried
> > to install wine but because my XP is on NTFS I
> could
> > not link to that partition.
> >
> > So, I have burned all my personal files to CD and
> am
> > wondering what to do next:
> >
> > 1) I suppose I could install another windows
> operating
> > system like 98.  Drawback is that when I do use
> > Windows, XP tends to handle the plug and play
> features
> > better (like for my camera).  I uderstand that
> wine
> > handles Win98 system better than XP. 
> Recommendations?
> >
> > 2) Installing Windows will blow away GRUB.  I
> messed
> > around with this once and had to reinstall RH in
> its
> > entirety inorder to reinstall GRUb...any advice
> > appreciated.
> >
> 
> Linux has at least READ-ONLY support for NTFS.  The
> stock kernel that
> comes with RH 7.3 might not have that support
> enabled.  I would do this:
> 
> 1. Open a command shell
> 2. su (to root)
> 3. cd /usr/src/linux
> 4. make xconfig  (or make menuconfig)
> 5. locate the filesystems section and see which
> filesystems are enabled
> in your kernel
> 
> Alternatively, you can see if the NTFS support is
> compiled as a module
> with this command:  find /lib -name "ntfs*"
> 
> If you can get NTFS in your kernel, you can mount
> your XP drive(s) into
> your Linux filesystem and at least read your data
> directly.  I have
> BOTH of my FAT32 Win98 drives mounted in my Linux
> filesystem and play my
> Napster MP3s from them directly using XMMS.... :)
> 
> Good luck!
> 
> Peace.....
> 
> Tom
> 


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